hurricano

English

Noun

hurricano (plural hurricanos or hurricanoes)

  1. (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
    • William Shakespeare
      You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout.
    • Michael Drayton
      And downe the shower impetuously doth fall,
      Like that which men the Hurricano call...
    • Philip Massinger
      ...For I am possess'd
      With whirle-winds, and each guilty thought to me is
      A dreadfull Hurricano...

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hurricano in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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