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Webster 1913 Edition

Billow

Bil′low

,
Noun.
[Cf. Icel.
bylgja
billow, Dan.
bölge
, Sw.
bölja
; akin to MHG.
bulge
billow, bag, and to E.
bulge
. See
Bulge
.]
1.
A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
Whom the winds waft where’er the
billows
roll.
Cowper.
2.
A great wave or flood of anything.
Milton.

Bil′low

,
Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Billow

BIL'LOW

,
Noun.
A great wave or surge of the sea, occasioned usually by violent wind. It can hardly be applied to the waves of a river, unless in poetry, or when the river is very large.

BIL'LOW

,
Verb.
I.
To swell; to rise and roll in large waves, or surges.

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