Thun"der*bolt` (?), n. 1.
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. Something resembling lightning in suddenness and
effectiveness.
The Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of
war.
Dryden.
3. Vehement threatening or censure; especially,
ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of
excommunication.
Hakewill.
4. (Paleon.) A belemnite, or
thunderstone.
Thunderbolt beetle (Zoöl.), a long-
horned beetle (Arhopalus fulminans) whose larva bores in the trunk
of oak and chestnut trees. It is brownish and bluish-black, with W-shaped
whitish or silvery markings on the elytra.
Thun"der*bolt` (?), n. 1.
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. Something resembling lightning in suddenness and
effectiveness.
The Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of
war.
Dryden.
3. Vehement threatening or censure; especially,
ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of
excommunication.
Hakewill.
4. (Paleon.) A belemnite, or
thunderstone.
Thunderbolt beetle (Zoöl.), a long-
horned beetle (Arhopalus fulminans) whose larva bores in the trunk
of oak and chestnut trees. It is brownish and bluish-black, with W-shaped
whitish or silvery markings on the elytra.
