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noun. An abrupt, discontinuous natural electric discharge in the atmosphere.

noun. The visible flash of light accompanying such a discharge.

noun. A sudden, usually improbable stroke of fortune.

intransitive verb. To discharge a flash of lightning.

adjective. Moving or occurring with remarkable speed or suddenness.

noun. A becoming light or bright; a flashing of light: in this sense usually lightening.

noun. A sudden illumination of the heavens caused by the discharge of atmospheric electricity from one cloud to another or from a cloud to the earth; a flash of light due to electricity in the atmosphere.

noun. A becoming light or less heavy; an exhilaration of the spirits.

verb. Lightening.

noun. A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder.

noun. The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.

noun. a rare form of lightning sometimes seen as a globe of fire moving from the clouds to the earth.

noun. lightning in angular, zigzag, or forked flashes.

noun. more or less vivid and extensive flashes of electric light, without thunder, seen near the horizon, esp. at the close of a hot day.

noun. a device, at the place where a wire enters a building, for preventing injury by lightning to an operator or instrument. It consists of a short circuit to the ground interrupted by a thin nonconductor over which lightning jumps. Called also lightning discharger.

noun. a luminous beetle. See Firefly.

noun. a lightning rod.

noun. a quick, penetrating glance of a brilliant eye.

noun. a metallic rod set up on a building, or on the mast of a vessel, and connected with the earth or water below, for the purpose of protecting the building or vessel from lightning.

noun. a diffused glow of electric light flashing out from the clouds, and illumining their outlines. The appearance is sometimes due to the reflection of light from distant flashes of lightning by the nearer clouds.

noun. The flash of light caused by the discharge of atmospheric electrical charge.

noun. The discharge of atmospheric electrical charge itself.

noun. Anything that moves very fast.

adjective. Extremely fast or sudden.

adjective. Moving at the speed of lightning.

verb. To produce lightning.

noun. abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light

noun. the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more

"When we come back, what we call our lightning round."

dark lightning  jersey lightning  

thunder  

Jewish lightning  ball lightning  greased lightning  lightning bolt  lightning bug  

brightening  enlightening  frightening  heightening  tightening  

bolt  cloud  earthquake  explosion  flame  

Jupiter Fulgur  Thor  antelope  arrow  ball lightning  

lightninged  lightnings