shright
English
Etymology
From Middle English, preterite of shritch.
Noun
shright (plural shrights)
- (obsolete) A shriek or shrieking; sobbing.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- cruell Sprights, / That with their pitteous cryes, and yelling shrights, / They made the further shore resounden wide [...].
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