Billow
['bɪləʊ] or ['bɪlo]
Definition
(noun.) a large sea wave.
(verb.) rise and move, as in waves or billows; 'The army surged forward'.
(verb.) rise up as if in waves; 'smoke billowed up into the sky'.
(verb.) move with great difficulty; 'The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed'.
Checked by Hank--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
(n.) A great wave or flood of anything.
(v. i.) To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.
Typed by Connie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Wave, surge, breaker.
Typist: Rosa
Definition
n. a great wave of the sea swelled by the wind: (poet.) a wave the sea.—v.i. to roll in large waves.—adjs. Bill′owed Bill′owy.
Editor: Sasha
Examples
- The sea, all of a sudden, began to roar and rise in billows, and there was a blow, as if all the artillery in the world had been at once discharged. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Thy resolution may fluctuate on the wild and changeful billows of human opinion, but mine is anchored on the Rock of Ages. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Below us rose and fell the billows of a buried sea. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Checker: Ronnie