Chiefly Sc. Forms: 6 ȝewt, ȝout(t, 9 yout(t, yowte, 8– yowt. [f. next.] A yell, yelp.
1552. Lyndesay, Monarche, 6002. With mony ȝamer, ȝewt, and ȝell.
1567. Satir. Poems Reform., iii. 189. Cerberus … Sall gar hir cry, with mony ȝout and ȝell.
c. 1590. Burrel, Pass. Pilgr., I. xxxvii., in Jas. Watson, Coll. Scots Poems (1709), II. 33. And vther sum with zouts and zells, Maist cairfully did cry.
1806. R. Jamieson, Pop. Ballads, I. 233. The sichts to see, the yowts to hear That stound upon mine ear.
