scream

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To utter a long loud piercing cry, as from pain or fear.
2. v. To make a loud piercing sound: Jet planes screamed through the air.
3. v. To speak or write in a heated hysterical manner.
4. v. To have or produce a startling effect: The outlandish costume screamed with clashing colors.
5. v. To utter or say in or as if in a screaming voice.
6. n. A long, loud, piercing cry or sound.
7. n. Informal One that is hilariously or ridiculously funny: The new play was a scream.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To cry out with shrill voice; give vent or utterance to a sharp or piercing outcry; utter shrill cries, as in fright or extreme pain, delight, etc.
2. To give out a shrill sound: as, the railway whistle screamed. Synonyms See scream, n.
3. n. A sharp, piercing sound or cry, as one uttered in fright, pain, etc.
4. n. A sharp, harsh sound.
5. n. Synonyms Scream, Shriek, Screech. A shriek is sharper, more sudden, and, when due to fear or pain, indicative of more terror or distress than a scream. Screech emphasizes the disagreeableness of the sharpness or shrillness, and its lack of dignity in a person. It is more distinctly figurative to speak of the shriek of a locomotive than to speak of its scream or screech.

Wiktionary

1. n. A loud, emphatic, exclamation of extreme emotion, usually horror, fear, excitement et cetera. Can be the exclamation of a word, but is usually a sustained, high-pitched vowel sound, particularly /æ/ or /i/, in any case, the loudest and most emphatic sound a human can make tends to be a scream. The term is not generally applied to sounds made by non-humans.
2. n. An entertainingly outrageous person.
3. n. A form of singing associated with the metal and screamo styles of music. It is a loud, rough, distorted version of the voice; rather than the normal voice of the singer.
4. n. Used as an intensifier
5. v. To make the sound of a scream.
6. v. To move quickly; to race.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.
2. n. A sharp, shrill cry, uttered suddenly, as in terror or in pain; a shriek; a screech.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry
2. n. a joke that seems extremely funny
3. v. utter or declare in a very loud voice
4. v. make a loud, piercing sound
5. v. utter a sudden loud cry
6. n. sharp piercing cry