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(1):
(n.) An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
(2):
(n.) Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
(3):
(n.) A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
(4):
(v. i.) To storm.
(5):
(v. t.) To disturb as by a tempest.