spraich Sc. Now rare or Obs.
Also 6 spreich, 6–7 sprache, 6 sprauch.
[Imitative.]
A scream or outcry.
| 1513 Douglas æneid xi. i. 82 With hair down schaik, and petuus spraichis and cryis. 1533 Bellenden Livy iii. xviii. (S.T.S.) II. 16 Cryand with lamentabill spraichis. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 186 A spraich ryses from the nerrest, monie of the Scottis..spur with speid that iniure to reuenge. 1605 in Pitcairn Crim. Trials II. 463 Heiring hir and hir said servand gif þe sprache and cry. |