1. Noun
A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.
2. Noun
Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.
3. Noun
Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
4. Noun
A belemnite, or thunderstone.
5. Noun
a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
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