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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tempest \Tem"pest\, verb (used with an object) [Cf. OF. tempester, F. temp[^e]ter to rage.] To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.]
Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tempest \Tem"pest\, noun [OF. tempeste, F. temp[^e]te, (assumed) LL. tempesta, fr. L. tempestas a portion of time, a season, weather, storm, akin to tempus time. See {Temporal} of time.]
1. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
[We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed. --Milton.
2. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
3. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under {Drum}, n., 4. [Archaic] --Smollett.
Note: Tempest is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tempest-beaten, tempest-loving, tempest-tossed, tempest-winged, and the like.
Syn: Storm; agitation; perturbation. See {Storm}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tempest \Tem"pest\, verb (used without an object) To storm. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tempest
noun
1: a violent commotion or disturbance; "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was only a tempest in a teapot" [syn: {storm}]
2: (literary) a violent wind; "a tempest swept over the island"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "tempest": agitation, black squall, blaze, blizzard, blow, brouhaha, burst, chaos, commotion, convulsion, cyclone, dirty weather, disorder, disruption, disturbance, equinoctial, eruption, explosion, ferment, fit, flare-up, foul weather, gale, gust, half a gale, heavy blow, hurly-burly, hurricane, ill wind, irruption, line squall, line storm, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, perturbation, rainstorm, riot, rough weather, seizure, snowstorm, spasm, squall, squall line, storm, storm wind, stormy weather, stormy winds, strong wind, tempestuous rage, tempestuous wind, thick squall, thundersquall, thunderstorm, tornado, tropical cyclone, tumult, turbulence, typhoon, ugly wind, unrest, upheaval, uproar, violent blow, whirlwind, white squall, whole gale, williwaw, wind-shift line, windstorm
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