roar (orig. a different word from the ‘roar’ of lions, cannon, &c., but associated with it in modern times, esp. in echoes of the Hamlet passage)
1.
confusion, tumult
Tp. I. ii. 2
“you have Put the wild
waters in this roar.”
2.
“set on a ,” provoke to a
wild outburst of mirth Ham. V. i.
210.
