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▪ I. † shritch, n. Obs.
Forms: α. 5 shryche, schryche, 6 shrich(e, 7 schriche. β. 7 shreech, shreitch.
[f. shritch v.; cf. scritch n., screech n.1]
1. A screech, shriek.
α1470–85Malory Arthur xviii. xii. 745 Sir Lauayn..gaf a grete shryche and a merueillous gryfely grone. a1586Sidney Arcadia (1622) 383 Giuing a pitifull but sweet shrich. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 145 Letting the light fall out of her hand for feare, shee gaue withall a great schriche. 1650Howell Giraffi's Rev. Naples. i. 30 With howlings and unusuall schriches.
β1596Spenser F.Q. vi. iv. 18 Whose eares those shrieches shrill..did thrill. 1650S. Sheppard Candido 21 With a loud shreitch she leaped out of the bed. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. iii. (1673) 104/2 With their fearful shreeches affrighting Passengers.
2. = shritch-owl.
c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 763/3 Hic strix, a schryche.
▪ II. shritch, v. Obs. or dial.
Forms: 3 schirche, 4 schriche, schryche, 6 shryche, shri(t)ch, 6, 9 schrich. pa. tense and pa. pple. 4 schirȝt-e, shirt, 4–5 s(c)hriȝt-e, s(c)hright-e, s(c)hriht-e, -y-, sright-e; 4 schrichid, 5 shryched.
[Parallel form to scritch v.]
1. intr. To shriek, screech.
a1250Owl & Night. 223 Þu schirchest & ȝollest to þine fere. 13..K. Alis. 5738 By Porus conseil hogges hy took, And beten hem so they shrightte. c1330Arth. & Merl. 4739 Þe folk schirsten [read schirȝten] so heiȝe & loude Þat it schilled in to þe cloude. Ibid. 6403 Þe paiens schirt & made dol. c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 320 The owle..Hath after me shright [v.rr. schriht, sright, shryght] alle þis nyghtes two. c1386― Nun's Pr. T. 580 (Camb. MS.), And ther-with all thei schrichid & schoutid. 1470–85Malory Arthur xxi. v. 850 The quenes and ladyes wepte and shryched that hit was pyte to here. 1557Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 238 And to the Gods and to the skies they shright. a1575Gascoigne Posies, Flowers 58, I..schrich to ease my morning minde. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. viii. 32 Downe in her lap she hid her face, and loudly shright. 1841Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 564 Schriching as soon as ivir yo touchen him.
2. trans. To utter with shrieking.
1534More Comf. agst. Trib. iii. Wks. 1261/1 That hideous howling that those hel houndes shold shryche.
Hence † shritching vbl. n. and ppl. a.
c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 382 As rauenes qualm or schrychynge of thise owlis. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. xxxvii. (1495) 436 Ulula is a foule that hathe that name of shrichynge and cryeng. 1576Gascoigne Philomene 22 The Throstle she, which makes the wood to ring With shryching lowde. |