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Oared
(gcide) | Oared \Oared\ ([=o]rd), a.
1. Furnished with oars; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a
four-oared boat.
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2. (Zool.)
(a) Having feet adapted for swimming.
(b) Totipalmate; -- said of the feet of certain birds. See
Illust. of Aves.
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Oared shrew (Zool.), an aquatic European shrew ({Crossopus
ciliatus}); -- called also black water shrew.
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Oared
(gcide) | Oar \Oar\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Oared; p. pr. & vb. n.
Oaring.]
To row. "Oared himself." --Shak.
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Oared with laboring arms. --Pope.
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roared
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Hoared
(gcide) | Hoared \Hoared\, a.
Moldy; musty. [Obs.] --Granmer.
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Oared shrew
(gcide) | Oared \Oared\ ([=o]rd), a.
1. Furnished with oars; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a
four-oared boat.
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2. (Zool.)
(a) Having feet adapted for swimming.
(b) Totipalmate; -- said of the feet of certain birds. See
Illust. of Aves.
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Oared shrew (Zool.), an aquatic European shrew ({Crossopus
ciliatus}); -- called also black water shrew.
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Roared
(gcide) | 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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Soared
(gcide) | Soar \Soar\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Soared; p. pr. & vb. n.
Soaring.] [F. s'essorer to soar, essorer to dry (by
exposing to the air), fr. L. ex out + aura the air, a breeze;
akin to Gr. ?????.]
1. To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as
on wings. --Chaucer.
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When soars Gaul's vulture with his wings unfurled.
--Byron.
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2. Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be
exalted in mood.
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Where the deep transported mind may soar. --Milton.
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Valor soars above
What the world calls misfortune. --Addison.
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3. (Aeronautics) To fly by wind power; to glide indefinitely
without loss of altitude.
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