BILLOW

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

A great wave or flood of anything. Milton.

3.
v.

To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. "The billowing snow." Prior.


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