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Billowy definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BIL'LOWY, a. Swelling, or swelled into large waves; wavy; full of billows, or surges.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: characterized by great swelling waves or surges; "billowy storm clouds"; "the restless billowing sea"; "surging waves" [syn: billowy, billowing, surging]

Merriam Webster's

adjective see billow I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Billowy Bil"low*y, a. Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. --Thomson.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Surging, rolling, heaving, full of surges or billows. 2. Fluctuating, rising and falling, heaving, undulating.

Moby Thesaurus

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