Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.

2. (n.) Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.

3. (n.) Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.

4. (n.) A belemnite, or thunderstone.