squall

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1. 1.A sudden violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow. The gray skirts of a lifting squall. Tennyson. Black squall, a squall attended with dark, heavy clouds. -- Thick squall, a black squall accompanied by rain, hail, sleet, or snow. Totten. -- White squall, a squall which comes unexpectedly, without being marked in its approach by the clouds. Totten.
2. 2.To cry out; to scream or cry violently, as a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; as, the infant squalled.
3. 3.A loud scream; a harsh cry. There oft are heard the notes of infant woe, -The short, thick sob, loud scream, and shriller squall. Pope.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is to cry out; to scream or cry violently, as a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; as, the infant squalled called?
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