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billowy, a.|ˈbɪləʊɪ|
[f. billow n. + -y1.]
1. Characterized by billows.
c1615Chapman Odyss. v. 345 The billowie ocean. 1798Anti-Jacobin 21 May (1852) 142 Biscay's billowy bay. 1865Geikie Scen. & Geol. Scot. ii. 75 Crests and troughs of a billowy sea.
2. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of billows.
1791Huddesford Salmag. i. 24 And elevate his trembling mast Above the billowy precipice. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. §4. 36 The..horizon of the lake presented a billowy tumultuous appearance. 1884W. C. Smith Kildrostan 87 The bounding sea, And billowy roll of life.
3. transf. Cf. billow n. 3.
1726Thomson Winter 273 O'er the hapless flocks..The billowy tempest whelms. 1789Coleridge Nose, On billowy flames of fire I float. 1847L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. I. viii. 133 The great blue billowy domains of heather.
4. comb. (advb. and parasynthetic.)
1855Browning Men & Women, Last Ride, Some western cloud All billowy-bosomed. 1876Swinburne Erechth. (ed. 2) 45 Broad strength of billowy-beating war. |