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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Yell

Yell (yĕl), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Yelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Yelling.] [OE. yellen, ȝellen, AS. giellan, gillan, gyllan; akin to D. gillen, OHG. gellan, G. gellen, Icel. gjalla, Sw. gälla to ring, resound, and to AS., OS., & OHG. galan to sing, Icel. gala. Cf. 1st Gale, and Nightingale.] To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.

They yelleden as feendes doon in helle. Chaucer.

Nor the night raven, that still deadly yells. Spenser.

Infernal ghosts and hellish furies round Environed thee; some howled, some yelled. Milton.

Yell (yĕl), v. t. To utter or declare with a yell; to proclaim in a loud tone. Shak.

Yell, n. A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.

Their hideous yells Rend the dark welkin. J. Philips.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.