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▪ I. bellow, v.|ˈbɛləʊ|
Forms: 4 belwe, bellewe, 4–5 below, 6 bellue, 6– bellow.
[Of uncertain etymology. The equation of ME. belwen with the rare OE. bylᵹian suggests that the latter is late WSax. for *bięlᵹian, Anglian *bęlᵹian; but the origin of this is not evident, unless it be a parallel formation to the synonymous bellan, bell v.4, say from OTeut. *balligôjan: cf. OE. a-dílᵹian, OS. dîligôn, OTeut. *dîligôjan, parallel to *dîlôjan, in OHG. tîligôn and tîlôn to destroy.]
1. prop. To roar as a bull, or as a cow when excited. (Ordinarily, a cow lows.)
c1000Martyrol. 17 Jan. (Cockayne Shrine 52) Hwilum þa deofol hine swungon..hwilum hi hine bylᵹedon on swa fearras and ðuton eall swa wulfas. c1305Leg. Rood 145 Beestes gan belwe in eueri binne. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 333 Þere ne was cow..Þat wolde belwe after boles. 1388Wyclif Jer. l. 11 And lowiden ether bellewiden, as bolis. 1580North Plutarch 358 (R.) Like wild beasts bellowing and roaring. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 28 Iupiter Became a Bull, and bellow'd. 1784Burns Lett. x. Wks. (Globe) 302 A cow bellowing at the crib without food. 1868Once a Week No. 5. 99 The first bull advances bellowing fiercely.
b. trans.
1868Once a Week No. 5. 99 A young bull bellows a challenge.
2. Applied to the roaring of other animals; used formerly in sense of bell v.4 2.
1486Bk. St. Albans E v, An hert belowys. 1575Turberv. Venerie 238 An harte belloweth. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. v. i. 73 Youthful and vnhandled Colts..bellowing and neighing loud. 1602― Ham. iii. ii. 264 The croaking Rauen doth bellow for Reuenge. 1738–51Chambers Cycl. s.v. Hunting. The terms for their noise at rutting time..A hart belleth; a buck growns or troats; a roe bellows. 1766Vacation in Dodsley Coll. Poems III. 153 The master stag..Bellows loud with savage roar. 1875B. Taylor Faust iii. I. 51 Poodle..Cease to bark and bellow.
3. Of human beings: To cry in a loud and deep voice; to shout, vociferate, roar (depreciative or humorous); also (seriously) to roar from pain.
1602Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 36 There bee Players..that..haue so strutted and bellowed. 1649Milton Eikon. Wks. (1738) I. 43 Not fit for that liberty which they cried out and bellowed for. 1709Steele Tatler No. 54 ⁋3 He is accustom'd to roar and bellow so terribly loud in the Responses. 1718Pope Iliad v. 1053 Mars bellows with the pain. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. II. 234 Like a bully bellowing for more drink.
b. trans. To utter (words or cries) in a loud and deep voice; frequently with out, forth.
1581Nowell & Day in Confer. i. (1584) D iiij b, Beelzebub bellowed out most horrible blasphemies. 1603Knolles Hist. Turkes (1621) 663 Bellowing out certaine superstitious charms. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 143 Noisy rustics bellowing ‘Green pease’ under my window. 1881C. M. Yonge Lads & Lasses Langley i. 41 Some used to bellow or screech out any familiar hymn in an irreverent way.
c. to bellow off: to drive off by shouting, to shout down.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. iii. iii. ix. 249 Fain would Reporter Rabaut speak his..last-words; but he is bellowed off.
4. Of thunder, cannon, wind, the sea, and other inanimate agents: To make a loud hollow noise; to roar.
1384Chaucer H. Fame (Fairf.) 1803 A soun As lowde as beloweth [v.r. belwith, bellyth, belleth] wynde in helle. 1596Spenser F.Q. i. vii. 7 A dreadfull sownd, Which through the wood loud bellowing did rebownd. 1653Holcroft Procopius 36 Mount Vesuvius bellowed. 1727Thomson Summer 1168 Thule bellows through her utmost isles. c1800Wordsw. Sonn. Liberty xii, And Ocean [should] bellow from his rocky shore. 1866B. Taylor Soldier & Pard 27 Our cannon bellowed round.
b. With obj.: To give forth, emit, utter, or proclaim with loud noise.
1706Watts Horæ Lyr. ii. I. 236 Till the hollow brazen clouds Had bellow'd..Loud thunder. 1852Tennyson Ode Wellington 66 His captain's-ear has heard them boom, Bellowing victory, bellowing doom. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. I. 141 A large cannon-ball..rolling down..bellowing forth long thunderous echoes.
▪ II. ˈbellow, n.
[f. prec. vb.]
1. The roar of a bull, or similar cry of other animals.
1779Hunter in Phil. Trans. LXIX. 286 The bellow of the free martin is similar to that of an ox. 1870Lubbock Orig. Civilis. ix (1875) 408.
2. transf. of human beings: A loud deep cry or roar.
a1835Hogg Tales (1837) III. 37 As loud as he could roar..never letting one bellow abide another. 1859G. Meredith R. Feverel xxi (1885) 151 He heard a bellow for help.
3. The loud deep roar of cannon, thunder, a storm, and other inanimate agents.
1826Disraeli Viv. Grey vii. viii. 430 The bellow of the martial drum. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vii. 229 Mere idle sounds, like the bellow of unshotted cannon.
▪ III. bellow(e
obs. form of billow. |