▪ I. † shright, n. Obs.
[Corresponding to scright = OFris. skrichte, MLG. schricht(e; but perhaps (in the 16th c.) suggested by some passage like the following, where forshright = wearied with shrieking:—
c 1374 Chaucer Troylus iv. 1147 (Harl. MS.), With brokyn vois al hois [v.r. hors] for shright [v.r. forshright] Criseyde To Troilus thise ilke wordes seyde.]
Shrieking; a shriek.
| 1556 T. Phaer æneid iv. K j, And mountaynes hie they fill with shright. 1590 Spenser F.Q. ii. vii. 57 With their pitteous cryes, and yelling shrights. 1596 Ibid. vi. iv. 2 Drawne with that Ladies loud and piteous shright. |
▪ II. † shright, v. Obs.
[Either f. prec., or the pa. tense of shritch taken as inf.]
To shriek.
| a 1542 Wyatt in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 38 And ye so ready sighes, to make me shright, Then are ye slacke, when that ye should outstart. |