Meaning of BILLOW
| Pronunciation: | | 'bilow
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- [n] a large sea wave
- [v] become inflated; "The sails ballooned"
- [v] rise and move, as in waves or billows; "The army surged forward"
- [v] billow forth; as of smoke or waves
- [v] move with great difficulty; "The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed"
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| | Synonyms: | | balloon, heave, inflate, surge, surge, wallow |
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| | See Also: | | blow up, cloud, expand, go, inflate, locomote, move, moving ridge, reflate, soar, soar up, soar upwards, travel, wave, zoom | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Bil"low\, n. [Cf. Icel. bylgja billow, Dan. b["o]lge,
Sw. b["o]lja; akin to MHG. bulge billow, bag, and to E.
bulge. See {Bulge}.]
1. A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused
usually by violent wind.
Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll.
--Cowper.
2. A great wave or flood of anything. --Milton.
\Bil"low\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Billowed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Billowing}.]
To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.
``The billowing snow.'' --Prior.
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| | Related Terms: | | bag, balloon, be poised, belly, belly out, bilge, bore, bouge, break, breakers, bug, bulge, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, comb, comber, crash, dash, dilate, dirty water, distend, eagre, ebb and flow, goggle, gravity wave, ground swell, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, lift, lop, peak, pooch, pop, popple, pouch, pout, riffle, ripple, rise, rise and fall, roll, roller, rough water, round out, scend, sea, send, smash, surf, surge, swell, swell out, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, toss, trough, tsunami, undulate, undulation, water wave, wave, wavelet, white horses, whitecaps |
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