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Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd.

Glorification; exaltation. "The apotheosis of chivalry." Prescott. "The noisy apotheosis of liberty and machinery." F. Harrison.

attery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

A hound too noisy on finding a good scent.

Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.

One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.

To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage. Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants. Burke.

One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.

Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak.

A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery. [Low] Halliwell.

Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy. The waters swell before a boisterous storm. Shak. The brute and boisterous force of violent men. Milton.

Rough or rude; coarse; strong; violent; boisterous; noisy. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Bois"tous*ly, adv. -- Bois"tous*ness, n. [Obs.] Chaucer.

unding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. Dryden.

A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee. [Colloq. U. S.]

Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity. [Colloq. U. S.]

A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump. The bounce burst open the door. Dryden.

A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle. This petty brabble will undo us all. Shak.

A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler. [R] Shak.

A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. [R.] A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift.

A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl. His sports were hindered by the brawls. Shak .