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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To utter a long loud mournful cry; wail.
  2. v. To say or utter with a yowl.
  3. n. A long loud mournful cry; a wail.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To give a long distressful or mournful cry, as a dog; howl; hence, of persons, to yell; bawl.
  2. n. A long distressful or mournful cry, as that of a dog.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A prolonged, loud cry, like the sound of an animal; a wail; a howl.
  2. v. intransitive Utter a yowl.
  3. v. transitive Express by yowling; utter with a yowl.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To utter a loud, long, and mournful cry, as a dog; to howl; to yell.
  2. n. A loud, protracted, and mournful cry, as that of a dog; a howl.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. cry loudly, as of animals
  2. n. a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
  3. v. utter shrieks, as of cats

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English yollen, past participle of yellen ("to yell"). More at yell, yollen. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English yowlen, probably of imitative origin . (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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