1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 158 With that all haill a schout thai gaf.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xiv. 223 Than a-roos the showte and the noyse of the saisnes.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 66/2 With this there was a great shout, crying kyng Richarde kyng Rychard.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vii. 39 This generall applause and louing shoute, Argues your wisedomes and your loue to Richard. View more context for this quotation

1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale xi. 195 So great weare th' peoples shootes, y^t thearth it startes.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 542 A shout that tore Hells Concave. View more context for this quotation

1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Antiq. Jews vi. ix, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 174 The intire army of the Hebrews, made a shout, and rushed upon them.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. viii. 104 An involuntary shout of laughter.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) vi. 143 We heard a faint shout.

1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem iv. xv. 69 b Gif ane man steilles cattell, or anie moueable gudes, and the shout and cry of neighbours follow him [etc.].

1609 J. Skene tr. 2 Stat. Robt. I xx. 32 b They sall raise the schout, and hoyes vpon him.

1609 J. Skene tr. 2 Stat. Robt. I xx. 32 b The Lord of the land or the creditour with schout, and hoyes, may follow him.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 168 All the birdis song with sic a schout That I annone awoilk.

c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) ii. 45 Trumpettis and schalmis w^t a schowt Playid or the rink began.

1807 W. Wordsworth To Cuckoo ii, in Poems II. 57 I hear thy restless shout.

1855 R. S. Hawker in C. E. Byles Life & Lett. R. S. Hawker (1905) 257 The shout of the trumpet.

1862 in E. W. Pearson Lett. from Port Royal (1906) 27 As we walked home we asked Cuffy if they considered the ‘shout’ as part of their religious worship.

1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 199/3 Negro Shouts. Songs with laughing and whistling choruses.

1937 Sun (Baltimore) (D ed.) 25 May 4/5 On the left sits a row of younger women—the ‘praying band’ or ‘shout band’.

1938 Mississippi (Amer. Guide Ser.) 24 Soon a woman leaps out into the aisle. She is ‘moved by the spirit’, she cries, and slowly, rigidly, she begins ‘the shout’, or if it is a Holiness meeting, the ‘Holy Dance’. It is shuffling, intricate; her heels thud on the floor.

1955 O. Keepnews & W. Grauer Pict. Hist. Jazz xii. 127 Stomping variations of rags, known as ‘shouts’, were the show-pieces most often used in competition.

1972 Listener 10 Aug. 187/1 A musical innovator with tremendous vocal power, he brings gospel and shout singing to the blues.

1965 G. Melly Owning-up ix. 107 Whenever one of us was describing to the other some drunken shout-up with a third party.

1973 Times 3 Nov. 11 I didn't mention it until it seemed to become a pattern and then we had a good old shout up.

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 635 And in the se it happede hem to mete—Vp goth the trompe—& for to schoute & schete.

c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 877 Nauþeles þaȝ hit schowted scharpe & ledden loude al-þaȝ hit were A note ful nwe I herde hem warpe.

1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur v. viii. 173 The batails approached and shoue and showted on bothe sydes.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. i. 313 The word of peace is rendred, heark how they showt . View more context for this quotation

1611 Bible (King James) Job xxxviii. 7 When the morning starres sang together, and all the sonnes of God shouted for ioy. View more context for this quotation

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 236 The People..all shouted, and wished him a thousand Blessings.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. i. 12 I called and shouted with the utmost strength of my Voice.

1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 46 Shout in the jubilee of death.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xiii. 144 He..shouted in her ear.

c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame 1808 That euery wight gan on hem shout.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 57 The common people, as if they had never seene a stranger before shouted at mee after a barbarous fashion.

c1730 A. Ramsay Wyfe of Auchtermuchty xv On hir to cry, on hir to schout.

c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 576 They ran and collected round him, hooting and shouting at him.

1679 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, & Event Bks. (1881) II. 104 Rode to York..found them shouting for knights of the Shire.

a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 570 Me thynkythe, I here my dragon schowt.

a1568 Bannatyne MS (Hunterian Club) 661 The mirthfull maveiss mirriest Schill schowttit throw the schawis.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. v. 67 Euery schaw Schouttis agane of thair clamour and dyn.

1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos xx. 275 The valleys shouting with summer joy.

1880 W. D. Howells Undiscovered Country x. 139 The fire shouted and roared within.

1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner ii. 14 He waved his silk hat and shouted himself hoarse.

1876 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 142/1 ‘Then why prevaricate?’ Said he perversely, ‘Now yer shoutin'!’

1892 W. D. Howells Mercy 420 Northwick said simply, ‘Yes, I will go with you.’ ‘Well, now you're shouting,’ said Pinney.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 July 3/1 Figures which, to use an Americanism, fairly ‘shout’.

1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter vii. 99 ‘You're shoutin' now, Colonel,’ agreed Tim.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. ii. 232 Necker, for not being at the Séance, shall be shouted for.

1875 [implied in: Weekly New Mexican 13 Oct. 2/1 The Carleton and Perea ‘shouters’, got up a procession with banners, transparencies and noise. (at shouter n.² 1b)].

1907 N.Y. Evening Post (semi-weekly ed.) 21 Nov. 4 Federal office-holders in various Southern States have been dutifully shouting for Roosevelt.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 152 Be he the correnoch had done schout.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. i. 212 They threw their caps As they would hang them on the hornes a'th Moone, Shooting their Emulation. View more context for this quotation

1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia i. 250 He..lov'd to hear the Vulgar shout his Name.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 8 Industriously shouting the cry of a church, the more effectually to reduce the faith to a vague futility.

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 614 With that gan al here meyne for to shoute ‘A go we se, cast vp þe yates wyde’.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 103 Haue I not heard these Islanders shout out Uiue le Roy . View more context for this quotation

1776 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (rev. ed.) IV. xvii. 234 I heard a voice, at my side, shout out, in once-loved accents, O, my dearest mamma.

1887 H. Caine Son of Hagar ii. i ‘A canny morning, Mr. Christian’, he shouted.

1931 E. F. Benson Mapp & Lucia ii. 30 Red-brick houses with tiled roofs, that shouted Queen Anne and George I in Lucia's enraptured ears.

1976 D. Francis In Frame iii. 48 From laquered hair via crocodile handbag to gold-trimmed shoes she shouted money.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 366 Thai schowtit hym and scornyng maid.

c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) ii. 122 This still for bargan Sym abyddis, And schowttit Will to schame.

1706 I. Watts Horæ Lyricæ i. 42 While our Hosannas all along the Passage Shout the Redeemer.

1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 698 The statesman of the day..comes. Some shout him, and some hang upon his car.

1797 T. Wright Autobiogr. (1864) 189 We therefore shouted the landlord out of bed.

1812 Ann. Reg., Chron. 38 After a while, the servant girl, Hannah Evans, came up to him to shout him up.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. ii. xii. 170 He stood obstinate siege from the Kaiser's people.., shouted-in Denmark to help.

1888 C. E. L. Riddell Nun's Curse I. vi. 106 He broke into a great laugh, and shouted the dogs on to her.

1895 Longman's Mag. Aug. 394 To goo an' get the lass shouted afore thou knowed if hoo were willin' to wed thee or not.

1914 N.E.D. at Shout Mod. (N.E. Derbyshire) I've got to go home; my mother's shouting me.

1924 G. B. Shaw St. Joan vi. 89 I know that there is no faith in a Frenchman. [Tumult, which he shouts down.]

1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate iii. 59 Freddy's thoughts whispered on, refusing to be shouted down by any other voice that might arise in his brain to hush them up.

1967 N. Freeling Strike Out 36 Francis forces things sometimes by simply shouting her down.

1978 P. Moore Man, Woman, & Priesthood xi. 171 This challenge may be not only right, but vindicated; it cannot, however, be ignored and shouted down.

1855 R. Carboni Eureka Stockade 68 You shouted nobblers round for all hands—that's all right; it's no more than fair and square now for the boys to shout for you.

1856 H. W. Harper Lett. from N.Z. (1914) 10 The first person in New Zealand to ‘shout’ for me, which here means to ask you into a house of call and stand treat.

1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xxxi So I shouted for him and he for me.

1873 J. H. H. St. John Pakeha Rambles through Maori Lands v. 82 Our friend set to work pumping him, and ‘shouted’ liberally till the old fellow's tongue was unloosed.

1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 97 We've shouted on seven-ounce nuggets, We've starved on a Seedeeboy's pay.

1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee iii. 36 Passing that stage of drunkenness, they started to quarrel over the question as to whose turn it was ‘to shout’.

1963 N. Hilliard Piece of Land 32 ‘Going to shout, Horace?’ Clarrie pulled out some change.

1981 National Times (Austral.) 25 Jan. 23/1 The tightwad..wouldn't shout if a shark bit him.

1867 A. L. Gordon Sea Spray 139 You may ‘shout’ some cheroots, if you like.

1881 Chequered Career 205 He then ‘shouted’ champagne, and assumed the most pompous airs.

1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xiv. 185 He gave up beer..in order to have it in his power to shout the young lady to 2 s. seats at the Royal.

1940 F. Sargeson Man & Wife (1944) 64 If he had a win he'd shouts us plenty of beer and cigarettes.

1964 V. M. Grayland Grave-digger's Apprentice xx. 119 If my luck's in..I'll shout you to the pictures tonight for helping me out.

1965 S. T. Ollivier Petticoat Farm vii. 98 ‘Mingy old skinflints!’ hissed Jane. ‘They could have shouted us an ice-cream!’

1977 Caravan World (Austral.) Jan. 35/1 On meeting an old friend a miner would shout him, not a drink as in other places, but a bath.