Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Shrieking; sobbing.
- An obsolete preterit of
shriek .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
shriek . - noun Obs A shriek; shrieking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
shriek . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
shritch . - noun obsolete A
shriek orshrieking ;sobbing .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Call on me in my grave, and hear my bones * Sigh their responses to the shright of you:
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The gate was arched like a great hall and over walls and roof ramped vines with grapes of many colours; the red like rubies and the black like ebonies; and beyond it lay a bower of trelliced boughs growing fruits single and composite, and small birds on branches sang with melodious recite, and the thousand-noted nightingale shrilled with her varied shright; the turtle with her cooing filled the site; the blackbird whistled like human wight47 and the ring-dove moaned like a drinker in grievous plight.
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The gate was arched like a great hall and over walls and roof ramped vines with grapes of many colours; the red like rubies and the black like ebonies; and beyond it lay a bower of trelliced boughs growing fruits single and composite, and small birds on branches sang with melodious recite, and the thousand-noted nightingale shrilled with her varied shright; the turtle with her cooing filled the site; the blackbird whistled like human wight [FN#47] and the ring-dove moaned like a drinker in grievous plight.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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And clasping the youth to the breast of him, * Kissed his cheek a - shrieking the shrillest shright. [
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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