What is the name meaning of BILLOW. Phrases containing BILLOW
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably a variant of Bellow or Bellew.
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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Billow
a.
Raised up in a ridge or ridges; as, a billow upridged.
n.
A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor.
v. i.
To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.
n.
A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
n.
The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea.
n.
A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind.
a.
Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.
a.
Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
n.
A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest.
v. i.
To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.
imp. & p. p.
of Billow
v. i.
To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
v. i.
To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.
n.
A great wave or flood of anything.
n.
To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam.
a.
Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively.
v. i.
To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle.
v. t.
To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.
a.
Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows.