2. To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup. A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs Shak. At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation. W. Irving.
YELP
Yelp, n.
Defn: A sharp, quick cry; a bark. Chaucer.
YELPER
Yelp"er, n.
Defn: An animal that yelps, or makes a yelping noise. Specifically: (Zoöl.) (a) The avocet; — so called from its sharp, shrill cry. [Prov. Eng.] (b) The tattler. [Local, U. S.]
YELTING
Yel"ting, n. [Orig. uncert.]
Defn: The Florida and West Indian red snapper (Lutianus aya); also, sometimes, one of certain other allied species, as L. caxis.
YEMAN
Ye"man, n.
Defn: A yeoman. [Obs.] Chaucer.
YEN
Yen, n.