Roaring

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

(·p.pr. & ·vb.n.) of Roar.

II. Roaring ·noun A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person in distress, anger, mirth, ·etc., or of a noisy congregation.

III. Roaring ·noun 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, ·vi, 5.

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