Yelp v. i. [imp. & p. p. Yelped p. pr. & vb. n. Yelping.]
  1. To boast.  [Obs.]
     I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe.   --Chaucer.
  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?   --Shak.
     At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation.   --W. Irving.
  yelping
       n : a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) [syn: yelp]