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- English Word Shriek Definition 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.
- English Word Shriek Definition To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
- English Word Shriek Definition A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
- English Word Shrieked Definition of Shriek
- English Word Shrieker Definition One who utters a shriek.
- English Word Shrieking Definition of Shriek
- English Word Shrieval Definition Of or pertaining to a sheriff.
- English Word Shrievalty Definition The office, or sphere of jurisdiction, of a sheriff; sheriffalty.
- English Word Shrieve Definition A sheriff.
- English Word Shrieve Definition To shrive; to question.
- English Word Shrift Definition The act of shriving.
- English Word Shrift Definition Confession made to a priest, and the absolution consequent upon it.
- English Word Shright Definition imp. & p. p. of Shriek.
- English Word Shright Definition A shriek; shrieking.
- English Word Shrike Definition Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.
- English Word Shrill Definition Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a sound.
- English Word Shrill Definition A shrill sound.
- English Word Shrill Definition To utter an acute, piercing sound; to sound with a sharp, shrill tone; to become shrill.
- English Word Shrill Definition To utter or express in a shrill tone; to cause to make a shrill sound.
- English Word Shrill-gorged Definition Having a throat which produces a shrill note.
- English Word Shrill-tongued Definition Having a shrill voice.
- English Word Shrilled Definition of Shrill
- English Word Shrilling Definition of Shrill
- English Word Shrillness Definition The quality or state of being shrill.
- English Word Shrilly Definition In a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice.
- English Word Shrilly Definition Somewhat shrill.
- English Word Shrimp Definition To contract; to shrink.
- English Word Shrimp Definition Any one of numerous species of macruran Crustacea belonging to Crangon and various allied genera, having a slender body and long legs. Many of them are used as food. The larger kinds are called also prawns. See Illust. of Decapoda.
- English Word Shrimp Definition In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form.
- English Word Shrimp Definition In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. See under Fairy, and Brine.