Definition of billow

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Billow (n.) A great wave or flood of anything.

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Sea :: Sea (n.) The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea..
Swell :: Swell (n.) A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor..
Billowy :: Billowy (a.) Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
Welter :: Welter (n.) A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest..
Buffet :: Buffet (v. t.) To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows..
Billowing :: Billowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Billo.
Upridged :: Upridged (a.) Raised up in a ridge or ridges; as, a billow upridged..
Foam :: Foam (n.) To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam..
Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression..
Embillow :: Embillow (v. i.) To swell or heave like a ///// of the sea.
Billow :: Billow (n.) A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind..
Decuman :: Decuman (a.) Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively..
Billow :: Billow (n.) A great wave or flood of anything.
Billowed :: Billowed (imp. & p. p.) of Billo.
Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle..
Surge :: Surge (n.) A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind..
Billow :: Billow (v. i.) To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.
Suricat :: Surgy (a.) Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.
Welter :: Welter (v. i.) To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows..
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves..
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