Emily Dickinson Lexicon

YELL, v.i. [Sax. giellan, gyllan; D. gillen; Sw. gälla, to ring. It agrees in elements with call.]

To cry out with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror. Savages yell most frightfully when they are rushing to the first onset of battle. Nor the night raven, that still deadly yells. – Spenser.