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noun

Thrill n. A warbling; a trill.

Thrill n. A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

Thrill n.

A drill. See 3d Drill, 1.

A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement; as, a thrill of horror; a thrill of joy.

verb

Thrill v. t. (past & past part. thrilled; pres. part. thrilling)

To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill. (Obs.) "He pierced through his chafed chest With thrilling point of deadly iron brand."

Hence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate. "To bathe in flery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice." "The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled, That sudden cold did run through every vein."

To hurl; to throw; to cast. (Obs.) "I'll thrill my javelin."

Thrill v. i.

To pierce, as something sharp; to penetrate; especially, to cause a tingling sensation that runs through the system with a slight shivering; as, a sharp sound thrills through the whole frame. "I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins."

To feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or exquisite sensation, running through the body. "To seek sweet safety out In vaults and prisons, and to thrill and shake."

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"Thrill" Quotes from Famous Books

... desert isle with a being, no matter how good, who is incapable of feeling with you the eternal mystery of the encircling tides; who can only stare when you speak of the moaning lullaby of the restless sea; who knows not the glory of the sunrise, and feels no thrill when the breakers dash themselves into foam, or the moonlight dances on the phosphorescent waves—ah, that is indeed exile! Loneliness is not in being alone, for then ministering spirits come to soothe and ...

— Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard

... his hand in the most cordial way. I could not resist him. "My name is James Miles," I returned with some diffidence. "James Miles," he echoed. "James Miles ... there was a man of that name in Jacksonville, poor fellow ... now gone." "Perhaps he was my father ... did you know my father?" I felt a thrill go through me. Was this new-found acquaintance before me a friend of my father's? It turned out to be so. But why ...

— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters

... he actually was Drury Boldin in the throes of every fierce and spasmic thrill. Again he most vividly was Irene Straley watching her lover till she could not endure his torture or her own, and with one desperate challenge sent him back to the mystery whence ...

— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes

... Anstruther, of which he tells us that he spent his time by day in giving a perfunctory attention to the harbour, at which his father's firm were working, and lived his real life by night scribbling romances in his lodgings. It is on record that he felt a thrill of well-merited pride when an Anstruther small boy pointed to him, as he stood beside the workmen, and said: 'There's the man that's takin' charge.' But he assuredly knew more of pleasure in his hours of scribbling than in his hours of inspection, although the out-of-door, wind-swept, ...

— Robert Louis Stevenson • Margaret Moyes Black

... What a thrill ran through John's heart! He had won Annie, and he had won the fortune. Yes, he would give Robert the odd five thousand pounds. His state of mind might even lead him to make it guineas. He heard not a word of the sermon, and throughout the service he rose up and sat down several instants after ...

— The Grim Smile of the Five Towns • Arnold Bennett

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