| 单词 | billow-like |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbillow-like 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. < as lemmas |
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