shright

English

Etymology

From Middle English, preterite of shritch.

Verb

shright

(obsolete) simple past and past participle of shritch

Noun

shright (plural shrights)

(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 [...].