 | William Marrat, Pishey Thompson - 1812 - 488 pages
...meteorolites may be ae* counted for on this principle, by supposing that when the electric fluid rushes from one cloud to another, or from a cloud to the earth, it carries with it all thu various particles which have been raised into the air with the vapours by... | |
 | John Boag - English language - 1848 - 744 pages
...lewdness; uncbastity. Agility; nimbleness. LIGHTNING, llte'nlng, n. A eudden dißcharge'of electricity from a cloud to the earth, or from the earth to a cloud, or from one cloud to another, producing a vivid flash of light, and usually a loud report, called thunder.... | |
 | William Martin - 1849 - 296 pages
...which rest upon the earth. What is thunder ? The Noise made by Electricity passing through the Air from one Cloud to another, or from a Cloud to the Earth. "What is lightning ? The Light produced by the same process. What occasions Wind ? The Air on some... | |
 | Robert Hunt - Physics - 1851 - 502 pages
...disruptive discharge of many miles, perhaps, of electrified cloud. It may be that the discharge is from one cloud to another, or from a cloud to the earth. That this is but an effort to restore an equilibrium, is often shown by the phenomenon called the return... | |
 | GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852 - 670 pages
...body in shadow receives from a contiguous light object. LIG^HT'NING, a sudden discharge of electricity from a cloud to the earth, or from the earth to a cloud, or from one cloud to another, that is, from a body positively charged to one negatively charged, producing... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1852 - 678 pages
...body in shadow receives from a contiguous light object, LlfHIT XING, a sudden discharge of electricity from a cloud to the earth, or from the earth to a cloud, or from one cloud to another, that is, from a body positively charged to one negatively charged, producing... | |
 | J. A. Beil - 1855 - 756 pages
...Schleifen der geschmiedeten Feilen * Blanchissage, m. Lightning, s. (a sudden discharge of electricity from a cloud to the earth or from the earth to a cloud, producing a vivid flash of light) * Der Blitz, das Blitzen * Eclair, m. The forked lightning (when... | |
 | John Oswald - English language - 1854 - 608 pages
...electricity or lightening ; the report of a discharge of electrical fluid, that is, of its passage from one cloud to another, or from a cloud to the earth, or from the earth to a cloud. (Thunder is not lightning, but the effect of it.) Any loud noise. HIT Thunder-struck, astonished, amazed... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 904 pages
...incorporated towns, under 20 & 21 Viet. c. 50. LIGHTNING, litef-ning (Âng.-Sax.), a sudden diecharge of electricity from one cloud to another, or from a cloud to the earth, or from the earth to a cloud ; prod nein ga vivid flash of light, accompanied generally by a loud report, called thunder. When a... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - Botany - 1863 - 194 pages
...throughout the globe. The now familiar fact, that lightning is owing to the discharge of electricity, from a cloud to the earth, or from the earth to a cloud, would prepare us to expect, that the electrical fluid is distributed unequally under different circumstances... | |
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A stroke of lightning is a charge of electricity which passes with terrific force from one cloud to another, or from a cloud to the earth, or from the earth to a cloud. 
