Definition of Lightnings

1. Noun. (archaic) (plural of lightning) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lightnings

1. lightning [v] - See also: lightning

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lightnings

lightning bug
lightning bugs
lightning conductor
lightning conductors
lightning detector
lightning detectors
lightning injuries
lightning mapper
lightning never strikes twice in the same place
lightning rod
lightning rods
lightning strip
lightninged
lightninging
lightninglike
lightnings (current term)
lightpen
lightpens
lightplane
lightplanes
lightproof
lightray
lightrays
lightroom
lightrooms
lights
lights, camera, action
lights-out
lights out
lights up

Literary usage of Lightnings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Complete Course of Meteorology by Ludwig Friedrich Kämtz, Charles Martins, Léon Louis Chrétien Lalanne (1845)
"lightnings WITHOUT THUNDER. — When a storm is situated below the horizon, we observe in the ... But, when the lightnings attain an angular height of 20°, ..."

2. Popular Lectures on Science and Art: Delivered in the Principal Cities and by Dionysius Lardner (1846)
"Explanations of silent lightnings.—Observations of silent lightnings.— Difficulties in the Explanation of silent lightnings. ..."

3. Meteorological Essays by François Arago, Alexander von Humboldt, Edward Sabine (1855)
"he says, that harmless lightnings escape in silence from certain clouds, ... lightnings without thunder in cloudy weather appear to be common in the West ..."

4. A Treatise on Electricity, in Theory and Practice by Auguste de La Rive, Charles Vincent Walker (1858)
"M. Petit, at Toulouse, has seen lightnings the length of which attained to upwards of ten miles. Although lightning is more frequently followed by the noise ..."

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