Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EJ-U-LA'TION, n. [L. ejulatio, from ejulo, to cry, to yell, to wail. Perhaps j represents g, and this word may be radically one with yell, Sax. giellan, gyllan.]

Outcry; a wailing; a loud cry expressive of grief or pain; mourning; lamentation. Philips.