advb. phr.; also arore. [A prep.1 + ROAR sb.] In a roar, roaring.

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[c. 1305.  Pains of Hell, 180, in O. E. Misc., 216. With a stynch gurd out arore.]

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1461.  Marg. Paston, in Lett., 422, II. 65. The byll … hathe set the pepyll in thys contre arore.

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1836.  Blackw. Mag., XXXIX. 842. Hail! day of storms! with thy woods a-roar like rivers, and thy rivers a-roar like seas!

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