lightnings

A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.

“Although we did not see the lightning, we did hear the thunder.”

A discharge of this kind.

“That tree was hit by lightning.”

Anything that moves very fast.

The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.

To produce lightning.