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ull 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.

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.

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.

Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd. "A bustling wharf." Hawthorne.

Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.

Not complying with the restraints of order and law; tumultuous; unruly; lawless; turbulent; as, disorderly people; disorderly assemblies.

A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. [Archaic] Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. Smollett.

Lively manifestation of joy or zeal. Philip was greeted with a tumultuous enthusiasm. Prescott.

A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. [Archaic] Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves. Chapman.

Like a mob; tumultuous; lawless; as, a mobbish act. Bp. Kent.

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.

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

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

A tumultuous crowd; a rabble; a noisy throng.