单词 | boation |
释义 | boationn. archaic and rare after early 18th cent. Bellowing, roaring; a loud bellowing noise. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > roaring or bellowing > [noun] reirdc1330 bellowing1393 roaringa1398 routinga1425 whurling1495 rummishing?a1500 roara1522 boation1646 intonation1658 fremitus1820 bellow1827 fremescence1837 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxvii. 142 Whether the large perforations..may not much assist this mugiency or boation . View more context for this quotation 1663 J. Heath Chron. Late Intestine War iv. 812 The Thunder intermitting, as if it staid to receive and answer the reciprocated and ecchoed Boation and clashes of the Guns. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. iii. 134 To send their Mind at great Distances, in a short time, in loud Boations. 1844 S. K. Hoshour Lett. to Esq. Pedant xi. 33 Lachrymations and boations became ubiquitous. 1989 Advertising Age (Nexis) 17 July 52 Bo is a bolide, a brilliant shooting star, making a boation, a thunderous noise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1646 |
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