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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. "The billowing snow." Prior.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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