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Webster 1913 Edition

Yell

Yell

(yĕl)
,
Verb.
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

,
Verb.
T.
To utter or declare with a yell; to proclaim in a loud tone.
Shak.

Yell

,
Noun.
A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.
Their hideous
yells

Rend the dark welkin.
J. Philips.

Webster 1828 Edition

Yell

YELL

,
Verb.
I.
[It agrees in elements with call.] To cry out with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror. Savages yell most frightfully when they are rushing to the first onset of battle.
Nor the night raven, that still deadly yells.

YELL

,
Noun.
A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.
Their hideous yells rend the dark welkin.

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