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roared |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Roar \Roar\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Roared}; p. pr & vvb. n. {Roaring}.] [OE. roren, raren, AS r[=a]rian; akin to G. r["o]hten, OHG. r?r?n. [root]112.] 1. To cry with a full, loud, continued sound. Specifically: a To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast. Roaring bulls he would him make to tame. --Spenser. b To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger. Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief. --Dryden. He scorned to roar under the impressions of a finite anger. --South. 2. To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar. --Milton. How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar. --Gay. 3. To be boisterous; to be disorderly. It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance. --Bp. Burnet. 4. To laugh out loudly and continuously; as the hearers roared at his jokes. 5. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See {Roaring}, 2. {Roaring boy}, a roaring, noisy fellow; -- name given at the latter end Queen Elizabeth's reign, to the riotous fellows who raised disturbances in the street. ``Two roaring boys of Rome, that made all split.'' --Beau. & Fl {Roaring forties} (Naut.), a sailor's name for the stormy tract of ocean between 40[deg] and 50[deg] north latitude.
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