Sc. Now rare or Obs. Also 6 spreich, 6–7 sprache, 6 sprauch. [Imitative.] A scream or outcry.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, XI. i. 82. With hair down schaik, and petuus spraichis and cryis.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, III. xviii. (S.T.S.), II. 16. Cryand with lamentabill spraichis.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., I. 186. A spraich ryses from the nerrest, monie of the Scottis … spur with speid that iniure to reuenge.
1605. in Pitcairn, Crim. Trials, II. 463. Heiring hir and hir said servand gif þe sprache and cry.
