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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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90 words match “ROAR”

REECHO; RE-ECHO v.

To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reëcho the roar of cannon.

REPERCUSSIVE a.

Driven back; rebounding; reverberated. "Rages loud the repercussive roar." Thomson.

taining to a rhonchus; produced by rhonchi. Rhonchial fremitus. Etym: [L. fremitus a dull roaring or murmuring.] (Med.) A vibration of the chest wall that may be felt by the hand laid upon its surface. It is caused in the production of rhonchi in the bronchial tubes.

Violent. [Obs.] "Rigorous uproar." Spenser.

RIOT n. 2 definitions

Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. His headstrong riot hath no curb. Shak.

ROUT v. 2 definitions

To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer.

Uproarious; riotous. [Obs.]

Hubbub; uproar. [Vulgar]

Uproarious. [Vulgar]

An uproar; a quarrel; a noisy outbreak. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.

a suitable adjustment of pressure it is exceedingly sensitive to sounds, being caused to roar, flare, or become suddenly shortened or extinguished, by slight sounds of the proper pitch. -- Sensitive joint vetch (Bot.), an annual leguminous herb (Æschynomene hispida), with sensitive foliage. -- Sensitive paper, paper…

An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot. [Slang] Thackeray.

To make a sound like sighing. And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge. Coleridge. The winter winds are wearily sighing. Tennyson.

society." Milton. There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar. Byron.

The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring. The whispering leaves or solemn sough of the forest. W. Howitt.

SPLATTERDASH n.

Uproar. Jamieson.

nt, turned fickle, And for the foe began to stickle. Hudibras. While for paltry punk they roar and stickle. Dryden. The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong. Hazlitt.

Uttering no sound; silent; as, the audience is still; the animals are still. The sea that roared at thy command, At thy command was still. Addison.

Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar. Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England. Sir J. Davies.