billown.

Brit.

/ˈbɪləʊ/, U.S.

/ˈbɪloʊ/

Forms: Also 1500s bellow(e, 1500s–1600s billowe.

Etymology: Not known before 1550, but may have been in dialect use. Apparently < Old Norse bylgja billow (in Danish bölge , Swedish bölja ); compare Middle High German bulge ; Old High German *bulga and Old English *bylge are not found; < common Germanic belgan to swell, swell up: see bell v.¹

†1. The swell on the ocean produced by the wind, or on a river or estuary by the tide. Obsolete.

1589 A. Jenkinson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations ii. 358 And much adoe to keepe our barke from sinking, the billowe was so great.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. iii. §13. 57 That branch of Indus..[is] so large and deepe, and by reason thereof so great a billow, as it endangered his whole Fleete.

a. A great swelling wave of the sea, produced generally by a high wind; but often used as merely = Wave, and hence poetically for ‘the sea’.

ΘΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > billow or sea-wave

ytheOE

bearc1300

walmc1325

borec1330

float1477

walla1500

billow1552

ocean wave1590

translation wave1838

billowlet1867

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bellowe or waue of water.

1573 G. Gascoigne & F. Kinwelmersh Iocasta 3rd Chorus in G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres sig. Rii^v His barke with many a billowe beaten.

1596 E. Spenser Prothalamion iii. sig. A3 The gentle stream..bad his billowes spare To wet their silken feathers.

1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xlii. 7 All thy waues, and thy billowes [ Wyclif flodis, Coverd. waterflouds] are gone ouer me.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) v. i. 67 Why now blow winde, swell Billow, And swimme Barke.

1712 J. Hughes Spectator No. 467. ⁋2 The Waves and Billows thro' which he has steered.

1799 Scotland Descr. (ed. 2) 12 The appulse of the billows of the open Atlantic.

1817 C. Wolfe Burial Sir J. Moore in Edinb. Monthly Mag. June 278/1 The foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow.

b. figurative esp. of death as an overwhelming flood.

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the world > life > death > [noun] > symbolized

dead man's head1546

death's head1563

death-head1569

billow1592

death's face1598

scythe1609

caput mortuum1694

thigh-bone1825

skull1826

Kensal Green1842

calavera1904

1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis xii. 18 And provoke the nations that they might with their furious bellowes toss up and down.

1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 96 Till the last strong Billow stops the Breath.

1857 C. Heavysege Saul (1869) 429 The billows black of death's deep gulf.

3. transferred. A great wave of flame, air, sound; a body of men sweeping onward, etc.

ΘΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > bursting violently from rest or restraint > instance of > violent surge of something

tenth wave1585

billow1667

torrent1781

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 224 On each hand the flames..rowld In billows, leave i' th' midst a horrid Vale.

1854 W. H. Russell War (ed. 17) xxvi. 173 Huge stately billows of armed men.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §25. 185 Billows of air..rolled over us with a long surging sound.

1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 104 Let the billow of your pæans To Dunolly's tower be borne.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as billow-crest, billow-roll, billow-swell, billow-beaten, billow-like adjs.; billow-bred adj. reared or brought up on the sea. billow-rife adj. full of, or beset with many, billows.

ΘΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > surging, rolling, or heaving > of a billow

billow-roll1597

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [adjective] > billow > beaten by

billow-beaten1749

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [adjective] > billow

billowy1791

billow-like1851

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > billow or sea-wave > crest of

billow-crest1855

1597 Middleton in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) II. 536 The swans forsooke the quire of billow-roule.

1749 West Pindar in S. Johnson Life in Wks. IV. 202 The billow-beaten side Of the foam-besilver'd main.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick ix. 45 How billow-like and boisterously grand!

1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid i, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 229 Upon the billow-crest hang these.

1904 W. de la Mare Henry Brocken 95 The hosts of our pursuers paused, billow-like, reared, and scattered.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

billowv.

Etymology: < billow n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbillow.

1. intransitive. To rise in billows; to surge, swell.

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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > move restlessly about [verb (intransitive)] > run high, surge, or heave

flash1387

lifta1400

walterc1400

waverc1425

welter1489

jaw1513

roll?1532

surge1566

billow1596

to run high1598

estuate1658

to run steep1894

roil1913

1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. M4^v A poole of tears..Billow'd with sighes, like to a little maine.

1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 40 When his waters billow thus, Dark storms, and wind Incite them.

1794 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations Ocean behind him billows.

1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 31 A riotous confluence of watercourses Blanching and billowing in a hollow of it.

2. figurative and transferred. To surge, swell, undulate, roll with wavy motion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (intransitive)] > undulate

roll1565

billow1628

undulate1664

wave1667

pother1817

boil1882

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxxvi. sig. O8 Vexations, when they daily billow vpon the minde.

1725 E. Young Poem on Last Day (ed. 4) iii. 42 It soars on high, Swells in the Storm, and billows through the Sky.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc v. 120 The yellow harvest billow'd o'er the plain.

1865 G. MacDonald Alec Forbes I. xviii. 155 A laugh..billowed and broke through the whole school.

1871 D. G. Rossetti Last Confession 407 The pain comes billowing on like a full cloud of thunder.

3. transitive. To raise into billows or folds.

ΚΠ

1885 L. Wingfield Barbara Philpot I. x. 290 The cold air rushing in billowed the curtains and extinguished the lights.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	billow
释义	billown. Brit. /ˈbɪləʊ/, U.S. /ˈbɪloʊ/ Forms: Also 1500s bellow(e, 1500s–1600s billowe. Etymology: Not known before 1550, but may have been in dialect use. Apparently < Old Norse bylgja billow (in Danish bölge , Swedish bölja ); compare Middle High German bulge ; Old High German bulga and Old English bylge are not found; < common Germanic belgan to swell, swell up: see bell v.¹ †1. The swell on the ocean produced by the wind, or on a river or estuary by the tide. Obsolete. Π 1589 A. Jenkinson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations ii. 358 And much adoe to keepe our barke from sinking, the billowe was so great. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. iii. §13. 57 That branch of Indus..[is] so large and deepe, and by reason thereof so great a billow, as it endangered his whole Fleete. 2. a. A great swelling wave of the sea, produced generally by a high wind; but often used as merely = Wave, and hence poetically for ‘the sea’. ΘΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > billow or sea-wave ytheOE bearc1300 walmc1325 borec1330 float1477 walla1500 billow1552 ocean wave1590 translation wave1838 billowlet1867 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bellowe or waue of water. 1573 G. Gascoigne & F. Kinwelmersh Iocasta 3rd Chorus in G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres sig. Rii^v His barke with many a billowe beaten. 1596 E. Spenser Prothalamion iii. sig. A3 The gentle stream..bad his billowes spare To wet their silken feathers. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xlii. 7 All thy waues, and thy billowes [ Wyclif flodis, Coverd. waterflouds] are gone ouer me. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) v. i. 67 Why now blow winde, swell Billow, And swimme Barke. View more context for this quotation 1712 J. Hughes Spectator No. 467. ⁋2 The Waves and Billows thro' which he has steered. 1799 Scotland Descr. (ed. 2) 12 The appulse of the billows of the open Atlantic. 1817 C. Wolfe Burial Sir J. Moore in Edinb. Monthly Mag. June 278/1 The foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. b. figurative esp. of death as an overwhelming flood. ΘΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > symbolized dead man's head1546 death's head1563 death-head1569 billow1592 death's face1598 scythe1609 caput mortuum1694 thigh-bone1825 skull1826 Kensal Green1842 calavera1904 1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis xii. 18 And provoke the nations that they might with their furious bellowes toss up and down. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 96 Till the last strong Billow stops the Breath. 1857 C. Heavysege Saul (1869) 429 The billows black of death's deep gulf. 3. transferred. A great wave of flame, air, sound; a body of men sweeping onward, etc. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > bursting violently from rest or restraint > instance of > violent surge of something tenth wave1585 billow1667 torrent1781 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 224 On each hand the flames..rowld In billows, leave i' th' midst a horrid Vale. View more context for this quotation 1854 W. H. Russell War (ed. 17) xxvi. 173 Huge stately billows of armed men. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §25. 185 Billows of air..rolled over us with a long surging sound. 1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 104 Let the billow of your pæans To Dunolly's tower be borne. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as billow-crest, billow-roll, billow-swell, billow-beaten, billow-like adjs.; billow-bred adj. reared or brought up on the sea. billow-rife adj. full of, or beset with many, billows. ΘΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > surging, rolling, or heaving > of a billow billow-roll1597 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [adjective] > billow > beaten by billow-beaten1749 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [adjective] > billow billowy1791 billow-like1851 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > billow or sea-wave > crest of billow-crest1855 1597 Middleton in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) II. 536 The swans forsooke the quire of billow-roule. 1749 West Pindar in S. Johnson Life in Wks. IV. 202 The billow-beaten side Of the foam-besilver'd main. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick ix. 45 How billow-like and boisterously grand! 1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid i, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 229 Upon the billow-crest hang these. 1904 W. de la Mare Henry Brocken 95 The hosts of our pursuers paused, billow-like, reared, and scattered. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). billowv. Etymology: < billow n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbillow. 1. intransitive. To rise in billows; to surge, swell. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > move restlessly about [verb (intransitive)] > run high, surge, or heave flash1387 lifta1400 walterc1400 waverc1425 welter1489 jaw1513 roll?1532 surge1566 billow1596 to run high1598 estuate1658 to run steep1894 roil1913 1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. M4^v A poole of tears..Billow'd with sighes, like to a little maine. 1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 40 When his waters billow thus, Dark storms, and wind Incite them. 1794 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations Ocean behind him billows. 1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 31 A riotous confluence of watercourses Blanching and billowing in a hollow of it. 2. figurative and transferred. To surge, swell, undulate, roll with wavy motion. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (intransitive)] > undulate roll1565 billow1628 undulate1664 wave1667 pother1817 boil1882 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxxvi. sig. O8 Vexations, when they daily billow vpon the minde. 1725 E. Young Poem on Last Day (ed. 4) iii. 42 It soars on high, Swells in the Storm, and billows through the Sky. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc v. 120 The yellow harvest billow'd o'er the plain. 1865 G. MacDonald Alec Forbes I. xviii. 155 A laugh..billowed and broke through the whole school. 1871 D. G. Rossetti Last Confession 407 The pain comes billowing on like a full cloud of thunder. 3. transitive. To raise into billows or folds. ΚΠ 1885 L. 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