v. [f. BE- 4 + HOWL v.; first suggested by Warburton, 1746, as an emendation of behold in the passage from Mids. N. Dream.] trans. (and refl.) To howl at; to bewail with howls.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., V. 379. Now the hungry Lyons rores, And the Wolfe beholds [behowls] the Moone.
1838. Emerson, Misc., 118. It is travestied and depreciated … behooted and behowled.
1853. Kingsley, Hypatia, I. xiii. 287. Behowling your fate like Achilles on the shores of Styx. Ibid. (1859), Misc., I. 35. No wonder, poor fellow, if he behowls himself lustily … to Cecil.
