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▪ I. † gowl, n.1 Obs.
Also 6 goule, goawle. See also gole, gool.
[a. OF. goule, gole (mod. gueule):—L. gula throat.]
1. The throat. Also, the front of the neck.
1513Douglas æneis ix. ix. 86 Or as a ravanus bludy wolf throu slycht Hyntis in his gowl. Ibid. x. xii. 94 Joiful he bradis tharon dispituusly, Wyth gapand goule. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. vi. 139 Their voices still are hoarse and harsh, their throats have puffed goawles.
2. (See quot. 1893; cf. L. fauces.)
1638H. Adamson Muses Threnodie vi. 177 From thence we, passing by the Windie gowle, Did make the hollow rocks with echoes yowle. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Gowl, Gool, a hollow passage or pass between hills.
▪ II. gowl, n.2 Sc. and north. dial.|gaʊl|
[f. gowl v.1]
A howl, a yell, a loud cry.
1805Water Kelpie in Whitelaw Bk. Sc. Ballads (1875) 504 The troublit pool conveyit the gowl Down to yon echoin' rock. 1862J. Brown in Illustr. Melbourne Post 26 July, Anybody, even a beggar, by a gowl, and a threat of eye, could send him off howling. 1878Cumbld. Gloss., Gowl, the howl of a dog. 1894Crockett Raiders 377, I..burst out in a kind o' gowl o' anger.
▪ III. gowl, n.3 Obs. exc. dial.|gaʊl|
Also 7, 9 goul.
[Possibly connected with ON. gul-r yellow.]
A gummy secretion in the eye. (Cf. gound.)
1665Cotton Scarron. iv. (1741) 125 The Page was got as far as Atlas Back on his way, ere he could free 'um From Gowl and Matter, fit to see him. 1882Lanc. Gloss., Goul, a yellow secretion in the eyes of children.
Hence † ˈgowly a., full of ‘gowl’. Obs.
1601Weever Mirr. Mart. B iij, With that I stretcht my lims along the bed, Hauing no power to ope my gowlie eyes.
▪ IV. gowl, v.1 Chiefly Sc. and north. dial.|gaʊl|
Forms: 4 goule(n, 5 gole, 9 dial. goal, goul, 7 gule, 5– gowl.
[a. ON. gaula, perh. an extended form, with -l- suffix, of the root *gau-, ON. gøyja (:—*gaujan) to bark. But cf. yowl.]
intr. To howl, yell, cry bitterly or threateningly; also, to whine. Said of men and animals.
c1300Havelok 164 He greten, and gouleden. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 477 Unnethes es a child born fully Þat it ne bygynnes to goule and cry. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Clement 93 Scho goulyt, & grat, & rawe hir hare. 14..Tundale's Vis. (1893) 1179 He gret, he gowled, he was fulle wo. c1425Wyntoun Cron. iv. xxiv. 2096 Hundys..gowland in gret multytude. 1552Lyndesay Monarche 5487 Wylde beistis..Gowland with mony gryslye grone. 1802R. Anderson Cumberld. Ball. 53 Our Jenny she gowled, ay, like ought. 1813Hogg Queen's Wake, Kilmeny (1814) 183 The lion..gowled at the carle, and chased him away. 1895Lakeland & Iceland Gloss., Gowl, to cry with a whine, as a dog does.
b. transf. of the wind.
1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc., ‘O Steer her up’, Let's have pleasure while we're able..And let wind and weather gowl. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Goul or Goal, to blow in strong draughts, as wind through a narrow passage. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped xxvi. 271 When the wind gowls in the chimney and the rain tirls on the roof.
Hence ˈgowling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 6109 Þe day of gretyng and goulyng. 13..Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xxxiii. 248 Goulyng and grisbatyng of tethe. 14..Tundale's Vis. (1893) 398 Cryyng and golyng and dolfulle dynne. c1450Holland Howlat iv, At the quhilk he [an Howlat] couth growe, And made gowlyne. 1513Douglas æneis vi. ix. 50 Murnyng, granyng, gowlyng, and duleful beir. 1552Lyndesay Monarche 6008 Thare salbe gowlyng and gretyng. 1650Minutes Aberdour Sess. in Ross Aberdour (1885) 326 He heard one great guleing voice and dinne in the hollow. 1786Burns Ded. to G. Hamilton 96 May ne'er misfortune's gowling bark Howl thro' the dwelling o' the Clerk!
▪ V. gowl, v.2 Obs. exc. dial.|gaʊl|
[f. gowl n.3]
trans. To stop up with ‘gowl’.
1637Bp. Hall Rem. Prophaneness 32 There is a kind of earthliness in the best eye, whereby it is gouled up. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., Her eyes have been clean gowled up.
▪ VI. gowl
obs. form of gavel n.1
c1380R. Brunne's Handl. Synne 2394 (Dulwich MS.) It is boþe gowl & þefte.
▪ VII. gowl
variant of ghoul; obs. form of gull. |