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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yelling

Yell \Yell\ (y[e^]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Yelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Yelling.] [OE. yellen, [yogh]ellen, AS. giellan, gillan, gyllan; akin to D. gillen, OHG. gellan, G. gellen, Icel. gjalla, Sw. g["a]lla to ring, resound, and to AS., OS., & OHG. galan to sing, Icel. gal

  1. Cf. 1st Gale, and Nightingale.] To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.

    They yelleden as feendes doon in helle.
    --Chaucer.

    Nor the night raven, that still deadly yells.
    --Spenser.

    Infernal ghosts and hellish furies round Environed thee; some howled, some yelled.
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
yelling

mid-13c., verbal noun from yell (v.).

Wiktionary
yelling

n. The act of producing a yell. vb. (present participle of yell English)

WordNet
yelling
  1. adj. noisy with or as if with loud cries and shouts; "a crying mass of rioters"; "a howling wind"; "shouting fans"; "the yelling fiend" [syn: crying, howling, shouting]

  2. n. uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement [syn: shouting]

Wikipedia
Yelling

Yelling is a linear village and civil parish in England located around east of the town of St Neots and south of Huntingdon. The village was formerly part of the historic county of Huntingdonshire and now lies within the Huntingdonshire administrative district of Cambridgeshire.

Yelling (disambiguation)

Yelling is a linear village and civil parish in the district of Cambridgeshire, England.

Yelling may also refer to:

  • Yelling (surname), an English surname (and list of people with that name)
  • Yelling (vocalization) or vociferation, a loud human audio vocalization
  • The Yelling, punk rock band from Los Angeles, California
Yelling (surname)

Yelling is an English surname, and may refer to:

  • Hayley Yelling (born 1974), British runner
  • Liz Yelling (born 1974), British runner
Yelling (album)

Yelling is the sixth studio album by Kay Tse, released on April 23, 2009. There are two versions of this CD, each includes a bonus CD with Music Videos.

Usage examples of "yelling".

He taken off down the creek when Glory started yelling at me, because he was a smart mule in his dumb way, and could tell when thunder-showers was brewing.

I left the trail and took out across the sage grass, and they all charged after me, yelling stop.

Old man Brenton inside was scairt and started yelling bloody murder, and about that time a mob of men come up to investigate the explosion which had stopped the three-cornered battle between Perdition, Tomahawk and Gunstock, and they thought I was the cause of everything, and they all started shooting at me as I rode off.

All I could see to shoot at was the puffs of smoke which marked the cracks they was shooting through, but from the cussing and yelling which begun to float up from the shack, I must of throwed some lead mighty close to them.

I was aware that people was shooting at me in the light of the burning saloon, and I seen that a bunch was ganged up on the other side of the street, so I begun to loose my shotguns into the thick of them, and they broke and run yelling blue murder.

I realized what was happening and run around to the other end of the cabin, they was all out and streaking for the trees, yelling blue murder, with their clothes all tore to shreds and them bleeding like stuck hawgs.

Bear Creek trail runs into the road, I seen a man on the road ahead of me, and he must have heard the shooting and Uncle Esau yelling because he whirled his hoss and blocked the road.

Uncle Esau was on the ground under us, yelling bloody murder and being stepped on by the hosses, but finally I cleared me a space with a devastating sweep of my club, and leaned down and scooped him up with one hand and hung him over my saddle horn and started battering my way clear.

So I slammed a bullet back through the barrel and the feller hollered and fell out in the open yelling blue murder.

I swung the butt around clear of the rim and let go, and it went down end over end into the river a hundred and fifty feet below, with a dozen men still hanging onto it and yelling blue murder.

The bartender give a holler and fell backwards into a tub of water and empty beer bottles, and started yelling for help, and I seen a man come to one of the doors which opened into the bar, and look at me.

They was a lot of cussing and yelling behind me and some shooting, but we was out of sight of them in a instant, and I went crashing on till I hit a creek I knowed was there.

Kidd bolted off through the woods as the posse come crashing through the bresh, yelling like Injuns, and they throwed down their shotguns on me as I clumb up the bank, dripping wet.

One or two were hurriedly fetching ropes and yelling contradictory orders, from which I deduced that Mr.

Chaos reigned around the fire, though I could hear Hodgepile trying to get his men in order, yelling and threatening, nasal voice raised above the rest.