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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To cry out; to scream or cry violently, as a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; as, the infant squalled.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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