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What's The Definition Of 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.
\Roar\, v. t. To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly. This last action will roar thy infamy. --Ford.
\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. Pit, boxes, and galleries were in a constant roar of laughter. --Macaulay.