shright

English

Etymology

From Middle English, preterite of shritch.

Verb

shright

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of shritch

Noun

shright (plural shrights)

1. (obsolete) A shriek or shrieking; sobbing.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     cruell Sprights, / That with their pitteous cryes, and yelling shrights, / They made the further shore resounden wide [...].