1. (n.) An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.

2. (n.) Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.

3. (n.) A fashionable assembly; a drum.

4. (v. t.) To disturb as by a tempest.

5. (v. i.) To storm.