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Roar \Roar\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Roared}; p. pr. & vvb. n.
{Roaring}.] [OE. roren, raren, AS. r[=a]rian; akin to G.
r["o]hten, OHG. r?r?n. [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[deg] and 50[deg] north latitude.


Roaring forties \Roar"ing for"ties\ (Naut.)
The middle latitudes of the southern hemisphere. So called
from the boisterous and prevailing westerly winds, which are
especially strong in the South Indian Ocean up to 50[deg] S.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]