Characterized by great vigour, force, or vitality, such as indicates or suggests pride. Of the sea, a stream, etc.: high, turbulent; strong, in…

Rising in waves, or as a wave; rising in level, becoming fuller, as a river or the tide. Chiefly poetic.

Of waves, currents, etc.: heaving, surging, flowing strongly and steadily onwards; undulating. Also figurative.

Swelling up; overflowing. Obsolete.