(1):

(n.) An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.

(2):

(n.) Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.

(3):

(n.) A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.

(4):

(v. i.) To storm.

(5):

(v. t.) To disturb as by a tempest.