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yelping


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Yelp  \Yelp\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Yelped};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Yelping}.]  [OE.  yelpen,  [yogh]elpen,  to  boast,  boast 
  noisily,  AS  gielpan  gilpan,  gylpan  akin  to  OHG.  gelph 
  arrogant:  cf  Icel.  gj[=a]lpa  to  yelp.  Cf  {Yap}.] 
  1.  To  boast.  [Obs.] 
 
  I  keep  [care]  not  of  armes  for  to  yelpe.  --Chaucer. 
 
  2.  To  utter  a  sharp,  quick  cry,  as  a  hound;  to  bark  shrilly 
  with  eagerness,  pain,  or  fear;  to  yaup. 
 
  A  little  herd  of  England's  timorous  deer,  Mazed  with 
  a  yelping  kennel  of  French  curs?  --Shak. 
 
  At  the  least  flourish  of  a  broomstick  or  ladle,  he 
  would  fly  to  the  door  with  a  yelping  precipitation. 
  --W.  Irving. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  yelping 
  n  :  a  sharp  high-pitched  cry  (especially  by  a  dog)  [syn:  {yelp}] 




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