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"ref": "1782, William Cowper, “Expostulation”, in Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq.",
"text": "[…] Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll, / From the world's girdle to the frozen pole;",
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"ref": "1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Wreck of the Hesperus”, in Ballads and Other Poems",
"text": "The snow fell hissing in the brine, / And the billows frothed like yeast.",
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"ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 9",
"text": "But at that moment he is sprung upon by a panther billow leaping over the bulwarks. Wave after wave thus leaps into the ship […]",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1864, Frank Moore, Songs of the Soldiers, page 238",
"text": "The banners outflame the blazing morn, / O'er billows of bayonet, sword, and spear.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1873, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Brook and the Wave”, in Birds of Passage",
"text": "And the brooklet has found the billow / Though they flowed so far apart.",
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{
"text": "1893 August, Rudyard Kipling, \"Seal Lullaby\", in \"The White Seal\", National Review.\nWhere billow meets billow, there soft be thy pillow; / Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!",
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"ref": "1922, Clark Ashton Smith, The Caravan",
"text": "Have the swirling sands engulfed them, on a noon of storm when the desert rose like the sea, and rolled its tawny billows on the walled gardens of the green and fragrant lands?",
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"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "źur tulqın",
"sense": "large wave",
"word": "ҙур тулҡын"
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"roman": "ogromna vǎlna",
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"code": "ca",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jùlàng",
"sense": "large wave",
"word": "巨浪"
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "large wave",
"word": "ondego"
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"sense": "large wave",
"word": "hyökyaalto"
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"word": "波浪"
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"sense": "large wave",
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"sense": "large wave",
"word": "puhitai"
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"sense": "large wave",
"word": "apu"
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"sense": "large wave",
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"sense": "large wave",
"word": "موج"
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"sense": "large wave",
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"roman": "challa",
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"word": "ਛੱਲ"
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"sense": "large wave",
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"word": "больша́я волна́"
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"sense": "large wave",
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"ref": "1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 2, in The Understanding Heart",
"text": "During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in … Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains, […], billowing steadily eastward, it had rolled up the western slopes of the Siskiyou Range, […]",
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"roman": "nadigam se",
"sense": "to surge in billows",
"word": "надигам се"
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"word": "vyöryä"
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"word": "майорі́ти"
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"ref": "1983, Peter De Vries, chapter 9, in Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, page 125",
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"word": "випи́нуватися"
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"1": "enm",
"2": "*bilewe"
},
"expansion": "*bilewe",
"name": "m"
},
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"1": "enm",
"2": "*bilwe"
},
"expansion": "*bilwe",
"name": "m"
},
{
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"1": "enm",
"2": "*bilȝe"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "non",
"3": "bylgja"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*bulgijō"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *bulgijō",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "bølge"
},
"expansion": "Danish bølge",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nb",
"2": "bølge"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian Bokmål bølge",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "bylgje"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian Nynorsk bylgje",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gmh",
"2": "bulga"
},
"expansion": "Middle High German bulga",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "bulge"
},
"expansion": "Low German bulge",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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"ref": "1782, William Cowper, “Expostulation”, in Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq.",
"text": "[…] Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll, / From the world's girdle to the frozen pole;",
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},
{
"ref": "1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Wreck of the Hesperus”, in Ballads and Other Poems",
"text": "The snow fell hissing in the brine, / And the billows frothed like yeast.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 9",
"text": "But at that moment he is sprung upon by a panther billow leaping over the bulwarks. Wave after wave thus leaps into the ship […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1864, Frank Moore, Songs of the Soldiers, page 238",
"text": "The banners outflame the blazing morn, / O'er billows of bayonet, sword, and spear.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1873, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Brook and the Wave”, in Birds of Passage",
"text": "And the brooklet has found the billow / Though they flowed so far apart.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "1893 August, Rudyard Kipling, \"Seal Lullaby\", in \"The White Seal\", National Review.\nWhere billow meets billow, there soft be thy pillow; / Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1922, Clark Ashton Smith, The Caravan",
"text": "Have the swirling sands engulfed them, on a noon of storm when the desert rose like the sea, and rolled its tawny billows on the walled gardens of the green and fragrant lands?",
"type": "quotation"
}
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[
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"swell"
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[
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[
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"undulating"
],
[
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[
"water",
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[
"smoke",
"smoke"
],
[
"fabric",
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[
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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},
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"US"
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},
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{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "źur tulqın",
"sense": "large wave",
"word": "ҙур тулҡын"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ogromna vǎlna",
"sense": "large wave",
"word": "огромна вълна"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "large wave",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "onada"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jùlàng",
"sense": "large wave",
"word": "巨浪"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "large wave",
"word": "ondego"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large wave",
"word": "hyökyaalto"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "large wave",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "flot"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "large wave",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vaga"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "large wave",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Woge"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "klúdōn",
"sense": "large wave",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "κλύδων"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "large wave",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "maroso"
},
{
"alt": "はろう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "harō",
"sense": "large wave",
"word": "波浪"
},
{
"code": "mg",
"lang": "Malagasy",
"sense": "large wave",
"word": "alòna"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "large wave",
"word": "puhitai"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "large wave",
"word": "apu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "large wave",
"word": "apu tai"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "large wave",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "ondada"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "large wave",
"tags": [
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"word": "vaga"
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{
"code": "oc",
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"sense": "large wave",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "èrsa"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "mevc",
"sense": "large wave",
"word": "موج"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "large wave",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bałwan"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "large wave",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vaga"
},
{
"code": "pa",
"lang": "Punjabi",
"roman": "challa",
"sense": "large wave",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ਛੱਲ"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bolʹšája volná",
"sense": "large wave",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "больша́я волна́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "val",
"sense": "large wave",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "вал"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "large wave",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "oleada"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "large wave",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ola"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "large wave",
"word": "bölja"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "velýka xvýlja",
"sense": "large wave",
"word": "вели́ка хви́ля"
}
],
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}
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"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
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"English nouns",
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"English terms derived from Old Norse",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰel- (blow)",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰelǵʰ-",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
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"Rhymes:English/ɪləʊ",
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{
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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{
"ref": "1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 2, in The Understanding Heart",
"text": "During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in … Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains, […], billowing steadily eastward, it had rolled up the western slopes of the Siskiyou Range, […]",
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{
"ref": "2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, page 59",
"text": "The black clouds of mercury vapour constantly billowing from the hatter's workshops and out into the streets must have been a horrifying sight.",
"type": "quotation"
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"ref": "1983, Peter De Vries, chapter 9, in Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, page 125",
"text": "She had changed her auburn hair. Instead of wearing it in a billowing puff over her brow, she had gathered it into a ponytail, secured with a length of yellow yarn.",
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]
}
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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},
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"US"
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},
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},
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nadigam se",
"sense": "to surge in billows",
"word": "надигам се"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to surge in billows",
"word": "deinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "of liquid",
"sense": "to surge in billows",
"word": "hyökyä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "of a mass",
"sense": "to surge in billows",
"word": "vyöryä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "of smoke",
"sense": "to surge in billows",
"word": "tupruta"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to surge in billows",
"word": "ondoyer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to surge in billows",
"word": "wabern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to surge in billows",
"word": "wogen"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"note": "of water",
"sense": "to surge in billows",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "bałwanić"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"note": "of water",
"sense": "to surge in billows",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zbałwanić"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzdymátʹsja",
"sense": "to surge in billows",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "вздыма́ться"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to surge in billows",
"word": "bölja"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zdijmatysja",
"sense": "to surge in billows",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "здійматися"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "majoríty",
"sense": "to surge in billows",
"word": "майорі́ти"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izduvam se",
"sense": "to swell or bulge",
"word": "издувам се"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to swell or bulge",
"word": "zwellen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to swell or bulge",
"word": "doen bol staan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to swell or bulge",
"word": "pullistua"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to swell or bulge",
"word": "bauschen"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "naduvátʹsja",
"sense": "to swell or bulge",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "надува́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vypjáčivatʹsja",
"sense": "to swell or bulge",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "выпя́чиваться"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to swell or bulge",
"word": "hincharse"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to swell or bulge",
"word": "inflarse"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vypýnuvatysja",
"sense": "to swell or bulge",
"word": "випи́нуватися"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zdijmátysja",
"sense": "to swell or bulge",
"word": "здійма́тися"
}
],
"word": "billow"
}
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