Yelp /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Yelped; p. pr. & vb. n. Yelping

1. To boast. [Obs.]

   I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe.

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?

   At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation.

1. A sharp, quick cry; a bark.