spraichn.
Scottish. Now rare or Obsolete.
A scream or outcry.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun]
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1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. i. 82 With hair down schaik, and petuus spraichis and cryis.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. iii. xviii. 16 Cryand with lamentabill spraichis.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 186 A spraich ryses from the nerrest, monie of the Scottis..spur with speid that iniure to reuenge.
1605 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. II. 463 Heiring hir and hir said servand gif þe sprache and cry.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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