tempest

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A violent windstorm, frequently accompanied by rain, snow, or hail.
2. n. Furious agitation, commotion, or tumult; an uproar: "The tempest in my mind/Doth from my senses take all feeling” ( Shakespeare).
3. v. To cause a tempest around or in.
4. idiom. teacup A great disturbance or uproar over a matter of little or no importance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A very violent storm; an extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious gale; a hurricane.
2. n. A violent tumult or commotion; perturbation; violent agitation: as, a tempest of the passions; a popular or political tempest.
3. To disturb violently, as by a tempest; rouse; throw into a state of commotion; agitate.
4. To descend as a tempest; be tempestuous; storm.

Wiktionary

1. n. A storm, especially one with severe winds.
2. n. Any violent tumult or commotion.
3. n. en (storm)
4. v. To storm.
5. v. To disturb, as by a tempest.

GNU Webster's 1913

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.
3. n. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
4. v. To disturb as by a tempest.
5. v. To storm.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. (literary) a violent wind
2. n. a violent commotion or disturbance