| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bil·low |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b l  |
| NOUN: | 1. A large wave or swell of water. 2. A great swell, surge, or undulating mass, as of smoke or sound. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: bil·lowed, bil·low·ing, bil·lows
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To surge or roll in billows. 2. To swell out or bulge: sheets billowing in the breeze. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To cause to billow: wind that billowed the sails. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Old Norse bylgja, a wave. See bhelgh- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | billow·i·ness —NOUN
billow·y —ADJECTIVE
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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