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▪ I. howl, v.|haʊl|
Forms: (? 3 hulen), 4–6 houle, (5 whoule), 5–7 howle, (6 owle), 6– howl.
[ME. ? hulen, houlen = MDu. hûlen, Du. huilen, MHG. hûlen, hiulen, Ger. heulen: of echoic origin. Cf. Gr. ὑλά-ειν, L. ululāre, It. urlare, OF. uller, urler, F. hurler to howl.]
1. intr. To utter a prolonged, loud, and doleful cry, in which the sound of u (ū) prevails. Said of dogs, wolves, and various wild animals; formerly also of the owl (now said to screech or hoot).
1390Gower Conf. II. 265 The horned oule The which men here on nightes houle. c1440Promp. Parv. 250/1 Howlyn as beestys, ululo. 1484Caxton Fables of æsop v. xii, The dogges herd the voys [of the wulf] wherfore they beganne to barke and to howle. 1549–62Sternhold & H. Ps. lix. (1566) 139 As houndes they houle and grenne. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 741 They heard Dogges howle on the shore. c1705Berkeley Cave Dunmore Wks. 1871 IV. 507 Two or three dogs..set themselves to howl with all their might. 1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 36 Like other uncultivated breeds of dogs they only howl.
2. Of a human being: To utter a similar sound; to utter loud and doleful inarticulate cries; to wail, lament, esp. with pain. In modern use often somewhat contemptuously applied to any cry of pain or distress.
(Quot. 1220 is very uncertain; the word may be corrupt.)
[c1220Bestiary 396 Man hire [ðe fox] hatieð, hatien and hulen boðe men and fules. ]c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1959 Shrighte Emelye and howleth Palamon. c1450tr. De Imitatione i. xxiv. 33 Þe enviouse shul whoule for sorowe as wode houndes. 1526Tindale Jas. v. 1 Goo to nowe ye Ryche men. Wepe and howle on youre wretchednes that shall come apon you. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 374 There is another Indictment vpon thee..for the which I thinke thou wilt howle. 1682N. O. Boileau's Lutrin ii. 140 My Angry Ghost shall haunt thy Conscious Soul, I'le Ring thee such a Peal, shall make thee Howl. 1805Scott Let. to Ballantyne 12 Apr. in Lockhart, He still howls about the expense of printing, but I think we shall finally settle. 1885L'pool Daily Post 7 May 4/9 Under these circumstances it will do the Conservatives very little good to howl.
b. howl at, howl upon, to assail or address with howling. With indirect pass.
1647A. Ross Myst. Poet. viii. (1675) 152 She [Hecate] was howled or called upon in the night by her Priests.
c. trans. To drive into a state by howling. howl down, to reduce to silence by howls of obloquy.
1872Bagehot Physics & Pol. (1876) 164 Any one who hears anything he does not like, tries to howl it down. 1885Manch. Exam. 20 May 4/7 Mr. Gladstone was almost howled down in attempting to reply. 1892Argosy Oct. 315 They have whirled or howled themselves into a mad delirium.
3. trans. To utter with howling. Also howl out.
1530Tindale Expos. & Notes (1849) 286 But the blind owls care not what they howl, seeing..that no man can spy them. 1605Shakes. Macb. iv. iii. 194 But I haue words That would be howl'd out in the desert ayre, Where hearing should not latch them. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 307 Singing, or rather howling certaine Psalmes or Prayers. 1700T. Brown tr. Fresny's Amusem. Ser. & Com. 21 And Howls out, Buy my Flawnders. 1816J. Wilson City of Plague ii. iii. 198 To howl my dying curses in his ear.
4. intr. Of inanimate agents, esp. the wind or a storm: to make a prolonged wailing noise. Of an organ: to cipher.
1687[see howling vbl. n. 1]. 1728Pope Dunc. i. 35 Keen, hollow winds howl thro' the bleak recess, Emblem of Music caus'd by Emptiness. 1742R. Blair Grave 32 The wind is up: hark! how it howls! 1819Shelley Prometh. Unb. i. 434 How fearfully God's thunder howls behind! 1852Seidel Organ 46 This is a very good contrivance..if one of the reed pipes should howl. 1875J. H. Bennet Winter Medit. i. x. (ed. 5) 303 The wind was howling in the mountains. 1886R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log 148 Dozens of great steamers go howling through the Downs every day.
5. (See quot.)
1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. s.v., When the Foot-hooks of a Ship are scarfed into the Ground-Timbers, and boulted, and then the Plank laid on them up to the Orlop, the Carpenters say, they begin to make the Ship Howle.
▪ II. howl, n.|haʊl|
[f. howl v.]
1. a. The prolonged and mournful cry of a dog, wolf, etc., which dwells upon the vowel u or some kindred sound; the similar sound of the wind or other inanimate agent.
1605Shakes. Macb. ii. i. 54 The Wolfe, Whose howle's his Watch. c1605Middleton Witch iii. iii, No howls of wolves, no yelps of hounds. 1724Swift Drapier's Lett. iv. Wks. 1778 II. 412 The last howls of a dog dissected alive. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iii. xxvi, Till sung his midnight hymn the owl, Answer'd the dog-fox with his howl. 1865Kingsley Herew. xiii, She expected him at every howl of the wind.
b. A howling noise produced in a loud-speaker as a result of electrical or acoustic feedback; howling.
1921Wireless World 10 Dec. 568/1 Ear-splitting howls associated with valve reception. 1928L. S. Palmer Wireless Princ. & Pract. x. 374 The typical ‘howl’ to which low-frequency amplifiers are subject. 1939H. J. Hicks Princ. & Pract. Radio Servicing xiii. 228 If the resistance-capacity filter in the a.v.c. line loses its effectiveness, a howl will result. 1962E. E. Ecklund Repairing Home Audio Systems xiii, 246 Rumble, feedback, and howl are caused by mechanical vibrations being transmitted to the pickup.
2. A loud wail or outcry of pain or anguish; a savage yell of rage or disappointment. (Often used contemptuously.)
1599Shakes. Hen. V, iii. iii. 39 Your naked Infants spitted vpon Pykes, Whiles the mad Mothers, with their howles confus'd, Doe breake the Clouds. 1697Dryden Eneid vii. 527 She..fills with horrid howls the publick place. 1776Twiss Tour Irel. 131 The Irish howl, which was made by the bellowing of a herd of men, women, and children, who attended the burial. 1833L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 100 Foulque uttered a howl of despair. 1858Bright Sp. Glasgow 21 Dec. (1868) 307/2 You remember the howl of astonishment which arose. 1862Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. App. ii. 421 His sufferings are exacerbated by the howl of popular execration or scorn.
▪ III. howl, -e
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