Meanings (ES + gloss)
alarido • chillido
A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
Sabor, the lioness, was a wise hunter. To one less wise the wild alarm of her fierce cry as she sprang would have seemed a foolish thing, for could she not more surely have fallen…
Shrieks, clamours, murmurs, fill the frighted town.
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
chillar
To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
At this she shriek'd aloud; the mournful train / Echoed her grief.
It was the owl that shrieked.
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