Also 5–6 ȝowle, 7 youle, 9 youl. [f. next.] An act of yowling; a prolonged loud cry, now esp. of a dog or cat.
c. 1450. Holland, Howlat, 53. He grat grysly grym, and gaif a gret ȝowle.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xxi. 69. Pitt obscure, Quhair ȝoulis ar hard with horreble stevin.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., I. 36. He brake forth into such a Youle of laughing, that he was ready to burst.
1820. Hogg, Tales & Sk., Sheph. Cal., i. A dog … gae two or three melancholy yowls.
a. 1877. Jas. Ballantine, in Mod. Scott. Poets, Ser. III. (1881), 31. At your feet wi’ kindly yowl, Whurrs your wee catty.
1917. P. MacGill, Gt. Push, i. The cats raise their primordial, instinctive yowl.
