The deep, loud cry of a wild beast; as, the roar of a lion.
(b)
The cry of one in pain, distress, anger, or the like.
(c)
A loud, continuous, and confused sound; as, the roar of a cannon, of the wind, or the waves; the roar of ocean. "Arm! arm! it is, it is the cannon's opening roar!"
(d)
A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth. "Pit, boxes, and galleries were in a constant roar of laughter."
verb
Roar v. t. To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly. "This last action will roar thy infamy."
Roar v. i. (past & past part. roared; pres. part. roaring)
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."
(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.""He scorned to roar under the impressions of a finite anger."
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.""How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar."
3.
To be boisterous; to be disorderly. "It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance."
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."
Roaring forties (Naut.), a sailor's name for the stormy tract of ocean between 40° and 50° north latitude.
... her by her name as she passed him, for he knew her, but received no reply. To Tom, who had, as the reader knows, been a witness of the scene we have described, this fearful glimpse of Nannie Morrissey's desolation and misery, under the pelting of the pitiless storm and the angry roar of the I elements, was distressing in the highest degree, and filled his honest heart ... — The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton Read full book for free!
... precipice disappearing in the whirling clouds, and the wind drove square against it with the roar of Niagara. The air was filled with snow and ice dust, and at intervals we could not see objects three feet away from our noses. Our poor furry companions huddled together, and being of no use to themselves or us, suffered more from the noise, and from the terror inspired by the snow ... — A Columbus of Space • Garrett P. Serviss Read full book for free!
... keen wind rest; the very fire could scarcely struggle against it. Snow-rain and ice-rain; frost-formed snow-granules, driven along like shot, stinging and rattling against the tent-cloth, hissing in the fire; roar and groan of the great wind among the oaks of the forest. No kindness to man, from birth-hour to ending; neither earth, sky, nor gods care for him, innocent at the mother's breast. Nothing good to man but man. Let man, then, leave his gods ... — Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies Read full book for free!
... It seems that, in spite of sometimes descending, we had, after all, been ascending most of the time, for these cars descend of their own momentum from the highest point of the salt mine to its mouth. The roar of that little car, the occasional parties of pedestrians we passed, crowded into cavities in the salty walls (for the free hour had struck), who shouted to us a friendly good luck, the salt wind whistling past our ... — Abroad with the Jimmies • Lilian Bell Read full book for free!
... followed, in the course of which the pressure on the British left caused it to give ground. In consequence, the American right advancing and the British left receding, the two lines swung round perpendicular to the Lane, the Americans standing with their backs to the precipices, beneath which roar the lower rapids of Niagara. At this period General Riall, who had received a severe wound, was captured while being carried ... — Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 - Volume 2 • Alfred Thayer Mahan Read full book for free!
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