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billow 1, verb(dictionary)
billow 2, noun(dictionary)
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billow (iou)



billow noun & verb. M16.

A. noun.
A great wave (of a stretch of water, esp. the sea, or transf. of flame, smoke, sound, moving bodies, etc.); poet. (sing. & in pl.) the sea. M16.
A swell on the sea. M16-E17.
b. verb intrans. Rise in billows; surge, swell; undulate. L16.
H. Vaughan When his waters billow thus, Dark storms and wind Incite them. T. Roethke Their skirts billowing out wide into tents. A. MacLean Black smoke billowing into the night sky.
billowy adjective of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of billows E17.