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Waul

Waul \Waul\, v. i. [Of imitative origin.] To cry as a cat; to squall; to wail. [Written also wawl.]

The helpless infant, coming wauling and crying into the world.
--Sir W. Scott.

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waul

vb. To wail, to cry plaintively.

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waul

v. make high-pitched, whiney noises [syn: squall, wawl]

Usage examples of "waul".

When he yowled and wauled at night to attract the lady cats who were the mothers of his kittens, it sounded as though a baby was being tortured to death.

I know is trying to find a guide for some important client who decided out of the blue he wauled to go hunting, so I thought of Creed.

Lust immixed with his uncertainty, and soon he was wauling with pleasure, doing things he had never thought possible.

From one moment of being a buck of the first head and cater- wauling with his friends allover London, chasing women, eat- ing and drinking his fill, gambling and playing, and with little thought for the morrow, to this seaborne exile was just too hell- ish a wrench.

Soleta said, clearly not wauling to dwell too heavily on the Black Mass' means of propulsion, "the Black Mass maintains its course until it comes upon another pulsar, which ii then uses to whip around once more and hurtle back to the Hunger Zone.

Then too the baby, like to a sailor cast away by the cruel waves, lies naked on the ground, speechless, wanting every furtherance of life, soon as nature by the throes of birth has shed him forth from his mother's womb into the borders of light: he fills the room with a rueful wauling, as well he may whose destiny it is to go through in life so many ills.