
Noah Webster
Turbulent
TUR'BULENT, adjective [Latin turbulentus, from turbo, to disturb.]
1. Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; being in violent commotion; as the turbulent ocean.
Calm region once,
And full of peace, now tost and turbulent
The turbulent mirth of wine.
2. Restless; unquiet; refractory; disposed to insubordination and disorder; as turbulent spirits.
3. Producing commotion.
Whose heads that turbulent liquor fills with fumes.