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1. That storms or rages.
1557. Tottel’s Misc. (Arb.), 242. And all my storming dayes be past, and weather waxeth faire.
1591. Spenser, Ruins of Time, 404. Wise words … Recorded by the Muses, liue for ay; Ne may with storming showers be washt away.
1619. A. Newman, Pleasures Vision, 10. Blowne and tost, like ships in storming wind.
1622. J. Taylor (Water P.), Farew. Tower Bottles, A 4 b. Showring hayleshot, from the storming heau’n.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. V. v. A dumb inarticulately storming Whirlwind of things.
1852. Tennyson, Ode Death Wellington, 155. Thank Him who isled us here, and roughly set His Briton in blown seas and storming showers.
1905. Daily Chron., 14 July, 3/1. The learned doctor is in a storming fury.
absol. 1712. Steele, Spect., No. 438, ¶ 4. The Hectoring, the Storming, the Sullen, and all the different Species and Subordinations of the Angry.
2. That attacks in order to take by storm; chiefly in storming party.
1802. C. James, Milit. Dict., Storming Party, a select body of men, consisting generally of the grenadiers, who first enter the breach, &c.
1829. Shipp, Mem., II. 185. The storming parties were ordered to be in readiness about two o’clock.
1864. Skeat, trans. Uhland’s Poems, 69. The storming hosts rush on.
1894. Ld. Wolseley, Life Marlborough, II. lxv. 195. The ecstasy of reckless daring which takes possession of the soldier in a storming party.
1894. Blackmore, Perlycross, xi. Three old Officers … brave men as ever led a storming column.
Hence Stormingly adv.
a. 1600. Hooker, Wks. (1888), II. 593. But there are, whose stubborn spirits will … hereupon stormingly reply.
