a. Also 6–8 thundry. [f. THUNDER sb. + -Y.]

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  1.  Of or pertaining to thunder; characterized by or betokening thunder.

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1598.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. ii. IV. Columnes, 779. When (angry) … he throws down thundry storms.

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1682.  in Birch, Hist. Roy. Soc. (1757), IV. 146. In thundry weather he [Mr. Hooke] supposed … hot sulphureous steams to issue out of the earth, which caused the sultriness that preceded.

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1774.  White, in Phil. Trans., LXV. 267. This bird [the Swift] is never so much alive as in sultry, thundry weather.

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1894.  Daily News, 4 July, 5/4. The sky … covered with heavy clouds of a very thundery type.

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  † 2.  Making a noise like thunder: THUNDEROUS 2. Obs.

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1605.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. IV. Decay, 648. As a Cannon’s thundry roaring Ball.

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  3.  fig. Threatening an explosion of anger or passion; gloomy, frowning.

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1824.  Miss Ferrier, Inher., xliv. Mr. R.’s brow looked rather thundery.

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1845.  Carlyle, Cromwell’s Lett. & Sp. (1871), V. 40, note. That thundery countenance of yours.

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1867.  S. Wilberforce, Ess. (1874), II. 85. A thundery state of the political and social atmosphere.

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