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Definition of Billowy
1. Adjective. Characterized by great swelling waves or surges. "Surging waves"
Definition of Billowy
1. a. Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
Definition of Billowy
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Billowy
1. swelling; surging [adj -LOWIER, -LOWIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Billowy
Literary usage of Billowy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Hymns: Their Authors and History by Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1886)
"Around a point, and there, under the shelter of hills crowned with billowy foliage,
her line of rustic roofs just peeping above the many masses of copse and ..."
2. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1858)
"... With angry crests flung up against the sky And billowy troughs between, that
roll enorm For miles of desolate grandeur scoop'd out deep,— As on a sudden ..."
3. The Chemistry of the Sun by Joseph Norman Lockyer (1887)
"Edge of chromosphere (billowy). This reversal of the hydrogen lines on the sun's
disc was also observed by Captain Herschel on June 10th, 1869, ..."
4. The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats by Mary Botham Howitt, Henry Hart Milman, John Keats (1853)
"Till he saw how the innocent creatures played In the billowy depths and were not
afraid ; Till he saw how the Nautilus spread his rail, And caught as it ..."
5. The Legend of the White Canoe by William Trumbull (1893)
"To your dreaming Meda, while in troubled sleep he lay, Came the Spirit of the
Waters, wreathed in billowy clouds of spray :— ' Wherefore do My children shun ..."
6. Russian Life and Society as Seen in 1866-'67 by Appleton and Longfellow, Two by Nathan Appleton (1904)
""And the great ships sail outward and return, Bending and bowing o'er the billowy
swells, And ever joyful, as they see it burn, They wave their silent ..."
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