Roar (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roared (?); p. pr. & vvb. n. Roaring.] [OE. roren, raren, AS. rarian; akin to G. rohten, OHG. rrn. &root;112.]
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.
Spenser.
(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.
Dryden.
He scorned to roar under the impressions of a finite anger.
South.
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.
Milton.
How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar.
Gay.
3.
To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.
Bp. Burnet.
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." Beau & Fl. -- Roaring forties Naut., a sailor's name for the stormy tract of ocean between 40° and 50° north latitude.
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Roar, v. t.
To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
This last action will roar thy infamy.
Ford.
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Roar (?), n.
The sound of roaring.
Specifically: (a) 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!
Byron.
(d)
A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth
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Pit, boxes, and galleries were in a constant roar of laughter.
Macaulay.
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