Squall: Definition and part of speech

Squall

  1. n. A sudden violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow.
  2. v. i. To cry out; to scream or cry violently, as a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; as, the infant squalled.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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