also 4 bellewing, 5 belewyng. [f. as prec. + -ING1.]
a. The roaring of a bull, or similar noise of other animals. b. Loud and continued vociferation of human beings, especially when inarticulate; noisy outcry. c. Roaring of cannon, thunder, the sea, etc.
1393. Gower, Conf., III. 203. It shulde seme … A bellewing in a mannes ere.
c. 1450. Lonelich, Grail, xliii. 172. As thowh it hadde ben a develes belewyng.
1552. Huloet, Bellowyng or rorynge of neate, mugitus.
1580. North, Plutarch, 358 (R.). The bellowing of such a multitude of beastly people.
1610. Shaks., Temp., II. i. 311. We heard a hollow burst of bellowing Like Buls, or rather Lyons.
c. 1620. Z. Boyd, Zion’s Flowers (1855), 11. Wee heare no thing but belloweing of the wind.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1824), I. 56. [They] believe the bellowings of Hecla are nothing else but the cries of the damned.
1852. Hawthorne, Grandf. Chair, II. iii. (1879), 86. What a bellowing the urchins make!
