[f. as prec.]
1. That utters or emits squeals; screaming.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 5626. Þe kings doghter … sagh þe vessel on þe flodd;… A squeland child þer-in sco fand.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xvi. (Magdalene), 484. To þis squeland barne ȝe [suld] spare.
1642. J. Ball, Answ. to Can, i. 143. Cathed. Churches … where … Singing men,… Squealing Choristers, Organ-Players,… &c. live in great idlenesse.
1689. R. Cox, Hibernia Angl., I. Apparatus l 1 b. A Bagpipe, which is a squealing Engine, fit only for a Bear-Garden.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 15, ¶ 2. She pinch’d me, and called me squealing Chit.
1879. Geo. Eliot, Theo. Such, ii. 35. A small squealing black pig.
1897. Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, 586. A terrific rain-storm … accompanied by a squealing, bitter cold wind.
b. Squealing hawk: (see quot.).
1884. E. P. Roe, in Harper’s Mag., March, 622/2. While flying it [the red-tailed hawk] utters a very harsh, peculiar, and disagreeable scream, and by some is called the squealing hawk.
2. Of the nature of a squeal.
1879. Jefferies, Wild Life in S. Co., 338. Now and then a peculiar squealing sound may be heard proceeding from the grass.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 506. Peculiar squealing cry.
