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What does roily mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word roily? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (of water) muddy, cloudy (having lots of sediment)
  2. turbulent
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Then the Sioux plunged their feverish faces into the roily water and drank as eagerly as the ponies.
His own thoughts were as that roily pool where he had ducked the old man in the darkness.
Wind, rain, roily, shoaly seas breaking clear over the ship across decks drove Cook out from land to deeper water.
On the day after the 6.8-magnitude temblor, under roily gray skies and cold intermittent rain, much of Olympia looked and felt under the weather.
So, she thought, a roily river of muddy waters this city was.
The water was not roily, but of a rich coffee-color, from the leachings of the woods.

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