Possible Definitions:
1. Tempest (n.) An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
2. Tempest (n.) Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
3. Tempest (n.) A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
4. Tempest (v. t.) To disturb as by a tempest.
5. Tempest (v. i.) To storm.
