billow
31billow cloud — noun : a long narrow cloud or usually a series of such clouds roughly parallel to each other caused by the flow of one layer of air over another producing waves at their interface the relatively cold crests of which are cloud capped and their… …
32over-billow — over big, over billow see over …
33air billow — noun : a wave at the interface of two horizontal layers of air caused by their difference in velocity …
34under-billow — …
35Billowed — Billow Bil low, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Billowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Billowing}.] To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. The billowing snow. Prior. [1913 Webster] …
36Billowing — Billow Bil low, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Billowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Billowing}.] To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. The billowing snow. Prior. [1913 Webster] …
37billowy — billow ► NOUN 1) a large undulating mass of cloud, smoke, or steam. 2) archaic a large sea wave. ► VERB 1) (of fabric) fill with air and swell outwards. 2) (of smoke, cloud, or steam) move or flow outward with an undulating motion. DERIVATIVES… …
38wave — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. wag, shake, sway, flutter, stream (in the wind); signal, motion, gesture, indication; roll, undulate; ripple, swell, billow, flood, surge; flaunt, flourish. n. sea, tide, water, ripple, billow, etc.,… …
39surge — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. rise, swell, billow, seethe, swirl; sweep, rush, stream, gush. See water, assemblage. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A wave] Syn. swell, billow, breaker; see surf , wave 1 , 2 . 2. [A deluge] Syn. rush,… …
40List of English words of Old Norse origin — This article is part of a series on: Old Norse Dialects …