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Ȝowling, Ȝoul(l)ing, vbl. n. Also: ȝowlyng, yowlling, youling, yawling, uling. [ME ȝuhelunge (a1225), ȝoȝelinge (a1250), ȝowlyng (Wyclif), yowlyng (Alph. Tales).] The action of howling. (Ȝowle v. 1.)(a) 1460 Hay Alex. 18660.
It was not lyik to be ane voice of man Bot mair lyik was of houndis the ȝouling Quhar mony makis togither thair gowling c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 114/57.
Throw hiddowis ȝowling of the wowf 1528 Lynd. Dreme 165.
In to the lawest hell … Ȝowtyng and ȝowlyng we hard, with mony ȝell … Was cryand mony cairfull creature Blasphemand God and waryand nature 1533 Boece 154b.
Wemen with ȝoulling & schowtis fillit all the camp 1535 Stewart 24526.
The clamorus cry, the ȝoulling and the beir, Of man and beist 1566-70 Buch. Comm. on Virgil Georgics i 486.
Ululantibus, ȝouling 1590 Burel Pilgr. i 305 (see Gowling vbl. n.). 1632 Lithgow Trav. x 466.
The water … strangled and swallowed vp my breath from youling and groaning a1651 Calderwood II 220.
The yowlling, beside womanlie weeping, stayed her speech(b) c1620 Boyd Fl. Zion Exc. xxiv/1.
Wee nothing but confused yawling heare 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 418.
He continued in that dreedfull, desperate, deplorable condition … with spectras, apparitions, ulings, about the roome