yowl

intransitive verb

To utter a long loud mournful cry; wail.

To say or utter with a yowl.

noun

A long loud mournful cry; a wail.

To give a long distressful or mournful cry, as a dog; howl; hence, of persons, to yell; bawl.

A long distressful or mournful cry, as that of a dog.