hurricanen.
/ˈhʌrᵻk(ə)n/, /ˈhʌrᵻkeɪn/, U.S. /ˈhərəˌkeɪn/ 1. A name given primarily to the violent wind-storms of the West Indies, which are cyclones of diameter of from 50 to 1000 miles, wherein the air moves with a velocity of from 80 to 130 miles an hour round a central calm space, which with the whole system advances in a straight or curved track; hence, any storm or tempest in which the wind blows with terrific violence.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > stormy weather > a storm > violent storm > specific types
hurricane1555
typhoon1588
oliphant1616
elephant1702
elephanta1725
typhon1783
tropical storm1809
tropical cyclone1852
hustler1882
hurricano-
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β. 1555 R. Eden tr. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdés Summarie Gen. Hist. W. Indies in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 183 Great tempestes which they caule Furacanas or Haurachanas..ouerthrowe many howses and great trees.1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 758 (note) A Catch perished at Sea in a Herycano.1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 903 Jamaica..is extremely subject to the Uracani,..terrible gusts of Winde.1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 910 Oviedo reporteth of a Huricano or Tempest.1617 W. Raleigh 2nd Voy. Guiana in R. H. Schomburgk Discov. Guiana (1848) 187 That night..a hurlecano fell vppon vs.1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xx. 130 The winds are..stark mad in an herricano.1643 J. Howell Parables 15 An Haraucana, that Indian gust.a1649 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1853) I. 337 Cast away..in a great hyrracano.1656 T. Blount Glossographia Haracana or Herocane,..an impetuous kind of Whirlewind.1670 R. Coke Disc. Trade 76 Plagues, Fires, and Hyrricanoes.1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. xii. 109 A storm or hurricano..makes a strange havock where it comes.1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. iii. 108 All at once the hurricano ceased.γ. 1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Comm. Notable Thinges in tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 313 This word Vracan, in the Indian tongue of those Ilands, is as much to say, as the ioyning of all the foure principall winds togither.1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. I8v The Hurican of the Sea.1617 W. Raleigh 2nd Voy. Guiana in R. H. Schomburgk Discov. Guiana (1848) 187 Not half a quarter of an hower before the hurlecan.1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 26 Wee doubted a Hero-cane, a Tempest of thirtie dayes continuance.1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 43 The Devill whom they call Tantara,..appeares often unto them specially in a Haraucane.1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋144 It's feared as a Harry-Cain.1651 J. Ogilby Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd (1665) 169 Bright Zephyre..Did bring a Heuricane To rend her.1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 374 Prodigious stormes called Tuffons or Hurricanes.1682 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 17 A prodigious hericane that broke bows and armes of trees.1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 94 No Tempests, no Tornado's, or Hurricans.1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. iii. vi. 65 Hurricanes, had never been known at Jamaica when I was there.1788 Gentleman's Mag. 58 i. 74/1 At eight the sky became obscured, and it blew a hurricane.1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) xix. §807 I have never seen a typhoon or hurricane so severe.1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. iv. f. 21v These tempestes of the ayer (which the Grecians caule Tiphones..) they caule, Furacanes..violent and furious Furacanes, that plucked vppe greate trees.
1587 R. Hakluyt J. Hawkins' 3rd Voy. (1878) 73 Their stormes..the which they call Furicanos.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden To Rdr. sig. D Stormes in the West Indies cald the Furicanoes.
1632 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. Iron Age sig. G4v With the tempests, gusts, and Furicanes, The warring windes, the billowes, rocks and fires.
2. transferred and figurative.† b. A large and crowded assembly of fashionable people at a private house, of a kind common during part of the 18th century. (Cf. drum n.3 1, rout n.1) Obsolete.
a. A violent rush or commotion bringing with it destruction or confusion; a storm or tempest of words, noise, cheers, etc.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > violent or tumultuous action or outbreak
turmoil1526
tumult1580
hurlement1585
pother1603
hurricane1639
burst1649
flare-up1837
firestorm1957
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [noun] > uproar or tumult
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ludea1275
ludingc1275
grede13..
to-doc1330
stevenc1385
ruitc1390
shoutingc1405
rumourc1425
dirdumc1440
shout1487
rippit?1507
glamer?a1513
rangat?a1513
reird?a1513
larumc1515
reirdour1535
uproar1544
clamouring1548
racket1565
baldare1582
rack jack1582
rufflery1582
pother1603
rut1607
clamorousnessa1617
hurricane1639
clutter1656
flaw1676
splutter1677
rout1684
hirdum-dirdum1724
fracas1727
collieshangie1737
racketing1760
hullabaloo1762
hurly1806
bobbery1816
trevally1819
pandemonium1827
hurly-burly1830
outroar1845
on-ding1871
tow-row1877
ruckus1885
molrowing1892
rookus1892
rux1918
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] > violent > instance of
combustion1579
hurricane1639
bluster1656
tear-up1886
1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat v. ii. sig. L Each guilty thought to me is A dreadfull Hurricano.
1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 647 This short calm went before a sudden herricano of persecution.
1677 J. Lake & S. Drake in J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ Ep. Ded. He with Hurricanos of wit stormeth the sense.
1687 T. Brown Saints in Uproar in Wks. (1730) I. 74 Don't you hear what a cursed hurricane they make?
1763 C. Johnstone Reverie (new ed.) I. 25 Such an hurricane of riot and debauchery.
1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 79 The loud hurricane of Pennsylvanian eloquence.
1882 Daily News 7 Mar. 5/4 A hurricane of cheers burst forth from the excited crowd.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > crowded or fashionable
drumc1743
rout1745
hurricane1746
squeeze1779
routationa1800
cram1810
crush1832
1746 R. Whatley Christian p. vii (note) A confused meeting of Company of both Sexes on Sundays is called a Hurricane.
1747 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 447 Tomorrow I go to St. James's..and finish at the duchess of Queensberry's, who is to have a hurricane.
1779 A. L. Barbauld Let. 20 Jan. in Wks. (1825) II. 22 There is a squeeze, a fuss, a drum, a rout, and lastly a hurricane, when the whole house is full from top to bottom.
1805 ‘E. de Acton’ Nuns of Desert II. 271 Entirely absconded from plays, balls, routs, drums, hurricanes.
c. A space from which trees, etc., have been cleared by the force of a hurricane. (Earlier hurricane ground: see hurricane ground n. at Compounds 1b) U.S.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > clearing > made by storm
hurricane1735
slashing1840
1735 J. Hempstead Diary 5 Aug. (1998) 288 The Stack..was made in the Hurrycane this Side the Swamp.
1824 Missouri Intelligencer 12 Feb. Hurricanes are so called from the appearance of the land when stripped by a violent wind.
1833 Sketches & Eccentr. D. Crockett 196 We were soon on foot, moving merrily forward to a small hurricane which had been agreed upon for a drive.
1891 W. F. Swasey Early Days & Men Calif. 15 In Missouri, cause and effect had been blended in the common designation of ‘hurricane’.
Compounds
C1. General attributive. ‘Of or belonging to a hurricane’.
a.
hurricane cloud n.
hurricane force n.
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1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Oct. 4/2 The wind blew from the west with hurricane force.
hurricane month n.
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1745 R. Auchmuty Importance Cape Breton 5 A safe retreat..in the hurricane months.
hurricane season n.
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1740 W. Stephens Jrnl. 27 Oct. in Jrnl. Proc. Georgia (1742) III. 20 The two Frigates..being apprehensive of the hurricane Season, retired into a safe Harbour at Charles-Town.
1812 J. Jay Corr. & Public Papers (1893) IV. 364 Those who sail in hurrican seasons and latitudes.
hurricane violence n.
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1887 Daily News 31 Oct. 3/8 Soon the wind was blowing with hurricane violence.
b. ‘That has been visited by a hurricane’.
hurricane ground n.
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1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida 307 We..travelled chiefly through pine land, and some hurricane ground. Note, Tracts of wood formerly destroyed by hurricanes are so called.
hurricane tree n.
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1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 337 They had passed over a boggy place..upon an old hurricane-tree.
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hurricane-bird n. the frigate-bird.
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the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > fregata aquila (frigate-bird)
alcatras1584
man-of-war hawk1657
albatross1733
frigate-bird1738
sea-eagle1845
sea-hawk1852
hurricane-bird1879
son-of-the-sun1895
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 786/1 Before gales Frigate-Birds are said often to fly low, and their appearance near or over land..is supposed to portend a hurricane. Note, Hence another of the names, ‘Hurricane-Bird’.
hurricane-deck n. a light upper deck or platform in some steamers.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > upper deck > light upper deck
spar-deck1570
hurricane-deck1833
hurricane roof1839
1833 Niles' Reg. 44 261/1 The hull of the boat sunk, leaving a part of the hurricane deck..floating on the surface.
1835 C. J. Latrobe Rambler in N. Amer. I. 286 On some of the larger..steamers, there is yet a third deck and range of cabins before you come to the roof, or hurricane deck.
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. v. 184 The promenade or hurricane-deck.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 97 They are..stowed..on the hurricane deck.
hurricane-decked adj. having a hurricane-deck.
hurricane-house n. a shelter at the mast-head for the look-out man, sometimes made with a cask, a ‘crow's nest’; also, a kind of round-house built on the deck.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck superstructure > deckhouse > types of
summercastle1345
summer-hutch1420
poop1551
roundhouse1611
caboose1747
hurricane-house1818
wheelhouse1835
storm-house1836
pilothouse1842
Texas1853
Liverpool house1869
monkey forecastle1870
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > platform at top of mast
topc1420
scuttle1597
bowl1627
round top1661
crow's nest1818
hurricane-house1818
bird's nest1851
1818 B. O'Reilly Greenland 122 To the main~mast is attached..about 100 feet above the deck, a structure resembling a water cask, called a hurricane house.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. ii. 20 A little hurricane-house amidships contained the one galley that cooked for all hands.
hurricane-lamp n. a lamp so constructed that it will not be extinguished by violent wind.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > with a protected flame
hurricane-lamp1894
storm lantern1895
hurricane-lantern1903
1894 Daily News 24 Nov. 7/1 A hurricane lamp was swinging in the corridor.
hurricane-lantern n. = hurricane-lamp n.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > with a protected flame
hurricane-lamp1894
storm lantern1895
hurricane-lantern1903
1903 Motoring Ann. 306 A hurricane-lantern, the highly inflammable vapour of petrol, and a ‘flash-back’, resulted in the total destruction of the car.
1954 G. Durrell Bafut Beagles ix. 166 In among the twinkling hurricane lanterns they were all dancing the polka.
hurricane roof n. = hurricane-deck n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > upper deck > light upper deck
spar-deck1570
hurricane-deck1833
hurricane roof1839
1839 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 29 Mar. 2/2 The snag went through the guards, cabin and hurricane roofs.
1849 Wilmington (N. Carolina) Commerc. 27 Nov. 1/6 Passing obliquely through the hurricane roof immediately over the ladies' cabin.
1866 A. D. Richardson Secret Service 226 Standing upon the hurricane roof,..we caught the first glimpse of each shot.
1882 Southern Hist. Soc. Papers X. 478 Almost before you could jump into the water, the flames burst through the hurricane roof.
1883 Cent. Mag. June 222/1 The..steamers..hidden to their hurricane roofs in cargoes of cotton bales.
hurricane wind n. a very strong wind associated with a tropical cyclone or hurricane; also, any wind of hurricane force.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > strong or violent wind
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racka1400
galea1547
Euroclydon1561
huff-gale1582
whiskera1598
gale-wind1628
sniffler1768
snifter1768
storm wind1839
buster1848
snorter1855
snorer1871
blusterer1877
ripsnorter1889
smeller1898
hurricane wind1921
1921 J. W. Redway Handbk. Meteorol. xiii. 156 Hurricane winds at Galveston were estimated to have a velocity of 125 miles per hour.
1923 W. N. Shaw Forecasting Weather (ed. 2) 456 As a result of the investigation of 1905 we now classify winds with velocity above 75 miles per hour as hurricane winds, those with velocity between 64 and 75 miles per hour as storm winds, and those between 39 and 63 as gales.
1954 G. T. Trewartha Introd. Climate (ed. 3) v. 209 In large storms in the western North Atlantic, the diameter of the hurricane winds may exceed 100 miles.
C3. Instrumental.
hurricane character adj.
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1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 378 The hurricane character of the gale began to change.
hurricane-swept adj.
Derivatives
hurricane v. (a) intransitive to make a ‘hurricane’ or commotion; (b) transitive, to blow upon as a hurricane; also, to spend in a ‘hurricane’ (sense 2b).
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (a blast) (of the wind [verb (transitive)] > blow upon violently
hurricane1682
society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > spend extravagantly [verb (transitive)] > on revel or party
revel?1526
hurricane1682
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > attending or giving party > give party to [verb (transitive)]
hurricane1682
frolic1807
party1934
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > be in commotion or disorder [verb (intransitive)] > cause commotion or disorder
to make work?1473
perturb1543
hurly-burly1598
to throw (also fling) the house out of (also at) the window (also windows)1602
tumultuate1611
to beat up the quarters of1670
hurricane1682
larum1729
to kick up, make, raise a stour1787
stour1811
to strike a bustle1823
to cut shindies1829
to kick up a shindy1829
hurricanize1833
rumpus1839
to raise (Old) Ned1840
to raise hell1845
fustle1891
to rock the boat1903
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 319 They..fall forthwith to hurricaning in Mansoul, as if now nothing but whirlwind and tempest should be there. View more context for this quotation
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 318 The Ambient Air from the high Tops..hurricanes us with such dismal chilling Gusts.
1746 R. Whatley Christian p. vii The idlest Day of the Seven, to be slept, debaucht, or journeyed, or hurricaned away.
hurricane-like adj.
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1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building 9 The West-Indian Herican-like-windes.
ˈhurricanize v. (intransitive) = hurricane vb. (a).
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > be in commotion or disorder [verb (intransitive)] > cause commotion or disorder
to make work?1473
perturb1543
hurly-burly1598
to throw (also fling) the house out of (also at) the window (also windows)1602
tumultuate1611
to beat up the quarters of1670
hurricane1682
larum1729
to kick up, make, raise a stour1787
stour1811
to strike a bustle1823
to cut shindies1829
to kick up a shindy1829
hurricanize1833
rumpus1839
to raise (Old) Ned1840
to raise hell1845
fustle1891
to rock the boat1903
1833 Blackwood's Mag. 34 529 Storm-demon, that would otherwise hurricanize over the world.
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1706 J. Vanbrugh Mistake iv, in Wks. (1840) 452/1 A sort of convulsive—yes,—hurricanious—um,—like, in short a woman is like the Devil.
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