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ar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion. What meaneth the noise of this tumult 1 Sam. iv. 14. Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose. Pope.

A maker of tumults. [Obs.] He severely punished the tumulters. Milton.

In a tumultuary manner.

The quality or state of being tumultuary.

Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous. "A tumultuary conflict." Eikon Basilike. A tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry. Macaulay. Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish. De Quincey.

To make a tumult. [Obs.] "He will murmur and tumultuate." South.

Irregular or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid. [Obs.] Boyle.

Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent. The flight became wild and tumultuous. Macaulay.

A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray. "In the very midst of the affray." Motley.

t; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst.

, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire. Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. Addison. To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge. Byron.…

Tumultuous; disorderly. [Obs.] Sir J. Harrington.

lk 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.

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.

To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.

Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena of ebullition. This is different for different liquids, and for the sam…

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.

The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.