Definitions
A sudden flash of electricity in the atmosphere.
Word origin
From light(e)n + -ing. Doublet of lightening.
Used in a sentence
“Although we did not see the lightning, we did hear the thunder.”
“Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?”
“It was the thought of hot July and August days, when the clouds piled up like woolly mountains, and lightnings streaked the sky.”
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