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verb

Bellow v. t. To emit with a loud voice; to shout; used with out. "Would bellow out a laugh."

Bellow v. i. (past & past part. bellowed; pres. part. bellowing)

To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.

To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor.

To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound. "The bellowing voice of boiling seas."

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Etymology of 'Bellowing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bellowing" Quotes from Famous Books

... doing just now! Look at the way young Cusack is bellowing over there! He's as mad on this match as if he ...

— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed

... telephone to somewhere for a messenger; he barricades himself in another room and tears his hair, wondering what on earth he shall write about. A drumming of fists on the door outside and a cheerful bellowing encourage and clarify his thoughts. . . . He sits down desperately; the messenger rings at the bell; the children drum on the door; the servants run up from time to time to say the messenger is getting bored; ...

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward

... the kine(i.e. without metaphor, for the act of freeing the clouds and letting loose the rain), compare I.32.2, where of Indra it is said: "He slew the snake that lay upon the mountains ... like bellowing kine the waters, swiftly flowing, descended to the sea"; and verse 11: "Watched by the snake the waters stood ... the waters' covered cave he opened wide, what ...

— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins

... at last began to puff and snort and show alarm, and Henry, springing to his feet, whirled the torch in a circle of living fire around his head. The whole herd broke in an instant into a frightful panic, and with much snorting and bellowing rushed away in a black mass toward the east. He threw down his torch, and grasping his rifle and throwing his pack over his shoulder, followed close upon them, so close that not even the keenest eye in the forest could have distinguished him from the herd in ...

— The Eyes of the Woods - A story of the Ancient Wilderness • Joseph A. Altsheler

... before. Leaning over the taffrail, his elbows out-thrust and his big hands folded, he roared the story at us in a great booming voice that at times seemed to drown the words in its own volume. Now, as the waves and the wind snatched it away, it grew momentarily fainter and clearer; now it came bellowing back again, ...

— The Mutineers • Charles Boardman Hawes

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