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/hˈaʊlɪŋ/ Listen

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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Etymology of 'Howling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Howling" Quotes from Famous Books

... from a speech of Cicero's, and next she got Dora to repeat after her the most crabbed of the Greek verbs. I shall have a couple of blue-stockings, and what is worse, one of them spurious, in the room of the single real production I reckoned upon among my daughters. By all means let May have a howling monster. She is not too old for a game of romps; and I must say, though I have never opposed the higher education of women, I don't want her cultivated into a gossamer, a woman all nerves and sensations, before she is out ...

— A Houseful of Girls • Sarah Tytler

... big Indian fell, his comrades set up a fierce howl, for he seemed to be the leader of the band. Mr. Mellowtone fired next; but his aim was less certain than that of the hunter. For my own part, heedless of the howling savages, I stood behind the tree gazing at the prostrate form of old Matt. I wept bitterly, and should have thrown myself upon his body if Kit had not sternly commanded ...

— Field and Forest - The Fortunes of a Farmer • Oliver Optic

... swept howling over him. The atmosphere was thick with smoke. Grape-shot whizzed through the bushes. The scream of rifled shot seemed to fill the very air with terror and shuddering. Right before him a shell struck a forest tree, shivering limbs and trunk in an ...

— The Drummer Boy • John Trowbridge

... for the coat, he heard a terrific howling, and the next moment a gigantic hand had swept past him, snatching away the coat and the soup, and so terrifying Grasshopper Green that he fell ...

— Grasshopper Green and the Meadow Mice • John Rae

... continued this custom up to his dying day. What they thought of the benediction in itself might be somewhat difficult to define, but it can be safely asserted that a passion of tears on the part of Babette, and a fit of demoniacal howling from Henri, would have been the inevitable result if Papa Patoux had refused to bestow it on them. Whether there were virtue in it or not, their father's mute blessing sent them to bed peaceably and in good ...

— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli

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