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noun

Howl n.

The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.

A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.

verb

Howl v. t. To utter with outcry. "Go... howl it out in deserts."

Howl v. i. (past & past part. howled; pres. part. howling)

To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do. "And dogs in corners set them down to howl." "Methought a legion of foul fiends Environ'd me about, and howled in my ears."

To utter a sound expressive of distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail. "Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand."

To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast. "Wild howled the wind."

Howling monkey. (Zool.) See Howler, 2.

Howling wilderness, a wild, desolate place inhabited only by wild beasts.

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"Howl" Quotes from Famous Books

... except Sandy, who, worn out with excitement, perhaps, slept on through all the fearful din. The mean little prairie-wolves gathered, and barked, and snarled, in the distance. Nearer, the big wolves howled like great dogs, their long howl occasionally breaking into a bark; and farther and farther off, away in the extremest distance, they could hear other wolves, whose hollow-sounding cry seemed like an echo of their more fortunate brethren, ...

— The Boy Settlers - A Story of Early Times in Kansas • Noah Brooks

... poorly! I have been to a funeral, where I made a pun, to the consternation of the rest of the mourners. And we had wine. I can't describe to you the howl which the widow set up at proper intervals. Dash could, for it was not ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6) - Letters 1821-1842 • Charles and Mary Lamb

... such as seemingly array themselves anew each time one reads them. One sees the "sea like an unbroken mirror all around the pine-girt, lonely shores of Orr's Island," and straightway comes "the heavy, hollow moan of the surf on the beach, like the wild angry howl of some savage animal." ...

— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge

... for his reappearance, when another singular occurrence took place. There was a whoop, or rather howl, followed by a fall of a warrior, who was so near the edge of the narrow ravine that when he came down, a portion of his body was seen by those below. The dull and rather distant report of a gun ...

— The Cave in the Mountain • Lieut. R. H. Jayne

... "'The hill-foxes howl'd round the wanderer's way, When his aim and his pathway were lost; And effort has then oft too much of dismay To pay well the toil it may cost. If fate has its privilege, death has its power, And is fearful where'er it may fall, But worse it ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

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