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sides of the Aar, near its influx into the lake of Thun. Popu¬ 
lation 1200; 16 miles south-south-east of Berne. 
THUN, a lake of Switzerland, which separates the Ober- 
land, or mountainous part of the canton of Berne, from the 
middle and more fertile part. It is 12 miles long and 3 broad; 
and is joined to the lake of Brienz by the Aar. 
THUNBERGIA [so named by Retzius, in honour of 
Charles Peter Thunberg, M. D., professor of botany in the 
university of Upsal], in Botany, a genus of the class didy- 
namia, order angiospermia, natural order of personatae, 
acanthi (Juss.) — Generic Character. Calyx: perianth 
double, outer two-leaved; leaflets ovate, obtuse, five-nerved, 
almost the length of the tube: inner one-leafed, many- 
parted; segments about twelve, awl-shaped, three times 
as short as the outer perianth. Corolla one-petalled, bell- 
shaped; tube widening gradually; border five-cleft; seg¬ 
ments equal, ovate, very obtuse, three times as short as the 
tube. Stamina: filaments four, inserted into the tube above 
the base, unequal: the two lower shortest, the two upper 
shorter than the tube. Anthers ovate, adnate. Pistil: germ 
superior. Style filiform, a little shorter than the tube, erect. 
Stigma two-lobed. Pericarp: capsule globular, beaked, 
smooth, two-celled, opening longitudinally; beak com¬ 
pressed, grooved, linear, obtuse; partition obovate, emar- 
ginate, perforated below the top, membranaceous at 
the sides, permanent. Seeds in each cell two, reniform, 
wrinkled, convex on one side, concave on the other with a 
longitudinal groove.— Essential Character. Calyx double; 
outer two-leaved; inner twelve-toothed. Corolla bell¬ 
shaped. Capsule beaked, two-celled. 
1. Thunbergia Capensis.—Leaves ovate, obtuse; stem dif¬ 
fused.—Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
2. Thunbergia fragrans.— Leaves cordate, acuminate, 
somewhat angular-toothed at the base, stem scandent.—This 
plant is common in hedges, among bushes, on the banks of 
water-courses, about Samulcotah, in the East Indies. 
THUNDER, s. [Sunbep, bunop, Saxon ; thinder , Swe¬ 
dish ; donder, Dutch ; tonnere , Fr.] Thunder is a most 
bright flame rising on a sudden, moving with great violence, 
and with a very rapid velocity, through the air, according to 
any determination, upwards from the earth, horizontally, ob¬ 
liquely, downwards, in a right line, or in several right lines, 
as it were in serpentine tracts, joined at various angles, and 
commonly ending with a loud noise or rattling. Muschen- 
Iroek. —In popular and poetic language, thunder is com¬ 
monly the noise, and lightning the flash; though thunder 
is sometimes taken for both. 
The thunder 
Wing’d with red lightning and impetuous rage, 
Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now 
To bellow through the vast and boundless deep. Milton. 
Any loud noise or tumultuous violence. 
So fierce he laid about him, and dealt blows 
On either side, that neither mail could hold 
Ne shield defend the thunder of his throws. Spenser. 
To TIIU'NDER, v. n. To make thunder. 
His nature is too noble for the world; 
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident. 
Nor Jove for’s power to thunder. Slcakspeare. 
To make a loud or terrible noise. 
His dreadful name late through all Spain did thunder , 
And Hercules’ two pillars standing near. 
Did make to quake and fear. Spenser. 
To THU'NDER, ■c.a. To emit with noise and terror. 
Oracles severe 
Were daily thunder'd in our general’s ear, 
That by his daughter’s blood we must appease 
Diana’s kindled wrath. Dry den. 
To publish any denunciation or threat.—An archdeacon, 
as being a prelate, may thunder out an ecclesiastical censure. 
Ayliffe. —To urge violently; to inflict with vehemence. 
Therewith they gan, both furious and fell. 
To thunder blows, and fiercely to assaile 
Each other, bent his enimy to quell. Spenser. 
THUNDER BAY, a bay on the north part of Lake Su¬ 
perior. 
THUNDER BAY, a bay on the west coast of Lake Huron, 
in Canada, which lies about half way between Sagana bay 
and the north-west corner of the lake. It is about 9 miles 
across either way, and is thus called, from the thunder fre¬ 
quently heard there. 
THUNDER RIVER, a river of North America, which 
falls into Lake Huron, in Thunder Bay, about half way be¬ 
tween Michilimackinac and the outlet of Lake Huron. 
THUNDERBOLT, s. Lightning; the arrows of heaven. 
—If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who should 
down. Shakspeare. —Fulmination; denunciation, properly 
ecclesiastical—He severely threatens such with the thunder¬ 
bolt of excommunication. Hakewill. 
THUNDERCLAP, s. Explosion of thunder. 
When some dreadful thunderclap is nigh. 
The winged fire shoots swiftly through the sky; 
Strikes and consumes ere scarce it does appear, 
And, by the sudden ill, prevents the fear. Dryden. 
THUNDERER, s. The power that thunders. 
How dare you, ghosts. 
Accuse the thunderer, whose bolt you know, 
Sky-planted, batters all rebelling coasts? Shakspeare. 
When the bold Typheus 
Forced great Jove from his own heav’n to fly. 
The lesser gods, that shar'd his prosp’rous state, 
All suffer’d in the exil’d thundcrer'siz.te. Dryden. 
THUNDERING, s. The emission of thunder.—Entreat 
the Lord that there be no more mighty thunderings and 
hail. Exod. —The act of publishing any threat; any loud 
or violent noise.—That church shall always have enemies, 
and shall still be tormented in the sea of this world with the 
thunderings of Antichrist. Bp. Hooper. 
THUNDEROUS, adj. Producing thunder. 
Look in and see each blissful deity. 
How he before the thunderous throne doth die. Milton. 
THUNDERSHOWER, s. A rain accompanied with 
thunder.—The conceit is long in delivering, and at last it 
comes like a thundershower, full of sulphur and darkness, 
with a terrible crack. Stilling fleet. 
THUNDERSLEY, a parish of England, in Essex; 2 miles 
south-west-by-west of Bavleigh. 
THUNDERSTONE, s. A stone fabulously supposed to 
be emitted by thunder; thunderbolt. 
Fear no more the lightning flash, 
Nor th’ all-dreaded thunderstone. Shakspeare. 
To THU'NDERSTRIKE, v. a. To blast or hurt with 
lightning. 
The overthrown he rais’d, and as a herd 
Of goats or timorous flock, together throng’d, 
Drove them before him thunderstruck. Milton. 
To astonish with any thing terrible. 
Feare from our hearts tooke 
The very life; to be so thunderstrooke 
With such a voice. Chapman. 
THUNDRIDGE, a parish of England, in Hertfordshire, 
on the river Rib; 2 miles north-by-east of Ware. Popula¬ 
tion 517. 
TIIUNGEN, a petty town of Bavarian Franconia; 11 
miles north of Wurzburg. Population 1000. 
THUNGERSHEIM, asmall town of Germany, in Bava¬ 
ria, near Wurzburg. Population 1300. 
THUNGFELD, a large village of Germany, in Bavaria, 
near Schl usselfeld. 
THUNSTETTEN, a large village in the interior of Swit¬ 
zerland, in the canton of Berne. 
THUR, a rapid river of Switzerland, which rises near the 
village 
