[f. YELL v. + -ING2.] That yells; that utters a loud strident cry or noise.
c. 1000. Widsið, 128 (Gr.). Ful oft of þam heape hwinende fleaʓ ʓiellende ʓar on grome þeode.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., III. 52. Hy ʓyllende garas sændan.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. ii. 31. A piteous yelling voyce.
1667. Milton, P. L., II. 795. These yelling Monsters that with ceasless cry Surround me.
1727–46. Thomson, Summer, 1681. The lonely tower … whose mournful chambers hold … the yelling ghost.
1823. Scott, Quentin D., vi. The disordered and yelling group.
1879. Daily News, 1 March., 4/6. To force their horses through the ring of yelling savages.
1899. Somerville & Ross, Irish R. M., 179. The tall old house quivered, and the yelling wind drove against it.
b. Characterized by or filled with yells.
a. 1000. Cædmon’s Exod., 489. He maneʓum ʓesceod ʓyllende gryre.
1549. Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. Eph., v. 12. Not with vncomly yellyng noyses, as madde drounken men are vsed to dooe.
1595. Locrine, I. Prol. 4. A Mightie Lion, ruler of the woods,… With yelling clamors shaking all the earth.
1697. Dryden, Æneis, III. 887. His brother Cyclops hear the yelling Roar.
1825. Scott, Talism., v. A loud yelling laugh.
1906. Marjorie Bowen, Viper of Milan, xxxiv. 361. The garden was one wild, yelling confusion.
