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[=e]r[=e]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.
          
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                Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.
                                                  --Spenser.
          
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      (b) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.
          
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                Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief
                Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief.
                                                  --Dryden.
          
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                He scorned to roar under the impressions of a
                finite anger.                     --South.
          
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   2. To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing
      vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or
      the like.
      
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            The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar.
                                                  --Milton.
      
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            How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar.
                                                  --Gay.
      
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   3. To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
      
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            It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.
                                                  --Bp. Burnet.
      
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   4. To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers
      roared at his jokes.
      
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   5. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a
      certain disease. See {Roaring}, 2.
      
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   {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.
      
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Roaring \Roar"ing\, n.
   1. A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of
      a person in distress, anger, mirth, etc., or of a noisy
      congregation.
      
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   2. (Far.) An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a
      loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the
      making of the noise so caused. See {Roar}, v. i., 5.
      
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