Meaning of boistous | Babel Free

Definitions

Coarse, rude; noisy, violent; strong.

Early, Modern, obsolete

Examples

“Pawes he had grete and longe / Fyre of out of his mouthe spronge / His tayle was grete and no thynge small / And his body boystous withall / His blaste myght no man tell”

“The tune wherof semes yet full straunge, so boystous is the blast: / but quiet calmes settes forth still windes, when stormes be gon and past.”

“And whan he was comen to the gate of the palais he mette firste with a boistous churle that rigorousli axed hĩ what he sought there?”

“And therewithall shee thought / The same to bee a shape ryght meete uppon them to bee brought: / And so shee from theyr myghty limbes theyr native figure tooke, / And turnd them into boystous Bulles with grim and cruell looke.”

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