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Not distant or remote in place or time; near. The loud tumult shows the battle nigh. Prior.

Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; clamorous; noisy; vociferous. "The obstreperous city." Wordsworth. "Obstreperous approbation." Addison. Beating the air with their obstreperous beaks. B. Jonson. -- Ob*strep"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Ob*strep"er*ous*ness, n.

ally in the plural. "The uttermost part of the heaven." Neh. i. 9. All parts resound with tumults, plaints, and fears. Dryden.

Possessing or enjoying peace; not disturbed by war, tumult, agitation, anxiety, or commotion; quiet; tranquil; as, a peaceful time; a peaceful country; a peaceful end.

Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother. [Written also potter, and pudder.] "What a pother and stir!" Oldham. "Coming on with a terrible pother." Wordsworth.

Great hurry; rash, tumultuous haste; impetuosity. "The precipitation of inexperience." Rambler.

To make a tumult or bustle; to splash; to make a pother or fuss; to potter; to meddle. Puddering in the designs or doings of others. Barrow. Others pudder into their food with their broad nebs. Holland.

quiet; to allay; to pacify; to cause to yield or cease; as, to quell grief; to quell the tumult of the soul. Much did his words the gentle lady quell. Spenser.

Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly.

A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.

A tumultuous crowd; a rabble; a noisy throng.

A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble. "Rude rablement." Spenser.

Making a tumultuous noise.

To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds. Why do the heathen rage Ps. ii. 1. The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise. Milton.

To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite. He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind. Ps. cvii. 25. Æneas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains. Dryden.

Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance. The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud. Milton.

Tumultuous festivity; revelry. [Obs.] Rowe.

lague of London, inflammations of the lungs were rife and mortal. Arbuthnot. Even now the tumult of loud mirth Was rife, and perfect in may listening ear. Milton.

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

Excess; tumult; revelry. [Obs.] His life he led in lawless riotise. Spenser.