Third-person singular present tense of behowl; to howl at or around something persistently.
From the prefix 'be-' (Old English, meaning around or concerning) combined with 'howl' (imitative origin). The '-s' ending marks third-person singular present tense.
Like many 'be-' verbs from earlier English, 'behowls' and 'behowling' are nearly extinct in modern usage, but they show how English once used prefixes more creatively to modify and extend verb meanings before we developed other grammatical strategies.
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