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Webster 1913 Edition
Waul
Waul
,Verb.
I.
[Of imitative origin.]
To cry as a cat; to squall; to wail.
[Written also
wawl
.] The helpless infant, coming
wauling
and crying into the world. Sir W. Scott.
Webster 1828 Edition
Waul
WAUL
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
waul
waul
English
Verb
waul (third-person singular simple present wauls, present participle wauling, simple past and past participle wauled)
- To wail, to cry plaintively.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act IV, Scene vi, Isaac Reed (editor), 1823, Isaac Reed (editor), The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 9, page 287,
- Thou know’st, the first time that we smell the air, / We waul, and cry.
- 1850, Sylvester Judd, Richard Edney and the Governor's Family, page 298,
- The Catapult wauled, "What if some poor man's dog was saved, — it was his comfort and defence; — he shared with the faithful creature his bread and butter: and when he dies, who watches his grave, — who, if we may so say, sheds a tear for the departed? — who, who, but his dog? […] "
- 2004, Michael Cisco, The San Veneficio Canon, page 75,
- A cattish ghost-familiar wauls from a monument's bronze shoulder, seeing him see it, and he shrieks back in its own language, pulling a face so horrible that pedestrians scatter out of his path, their white cottons flapping.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act IV, Scene vi, Isaac Reed (editor), 1823, Isaac Reed (editor), The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 9, page 287,