Going beyond all reasonable bounds; utterly senseless; extremely rash or reckless, wild; vehemently excited: = mad, adj. 5.

Turbid, disturbed, troubled: physically or mentally.

Of the sea, wind, etc.: Raging, rough, fierce, stormy: an attribute of winter, taken from Lydgate by Spenser, and echoed from Spenser by later…

Of the sea, etc.: Boiling, seething. Also substantive = torrent, adj. Obsolete.

Eager, impetuous, violent. Of a storm, a shower, †waves, etc.: Heavy, violent.

transferred. Of the wind, sea, etc.: Moved to a state of turmoil or commotion; violent, stormy.

Of the sea: That tumbles and tosses; raging, surging.

Chiefly of the sea, winds, and seasons: turbulent, violent, boisterous, rough.

Of the sea: Turbulent.

Of the sea: wavy, swelling; tempestuous.

= robustious, adj. (in various senses).

Characterized by physical disturbance or agitation; stormy. Obsolete.

Characterized by violent disturbance or commotion; violently disturbed or agitated; disorderly, troubled. Of weather, the sea, etc.: Stormy…

Of wind, weather, waves, etc.: Rough, the opposite of ‘calm’.

Of the wind: = high, adj. 15; of the sea: = high, adj. 4c. Obsolete.

Thrown into ridges, ridged: see quot. 1608.

Of the sea: having the troughs between the crests of the waves very deep.

Of the weather, sea, etc.: Unpleasantly or dangerously rough, stormy, or boisterous.

Of a stream, current, etc.: ‘Angry’. Obsolete.

Swelling into crested billows; crested.

transferred and figurative. Of waves, etc.: Ebullient, tumultuous. Also, pervaded by intense and ceaseless inner agitation: often with reference (li…

characterized by troughs.