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noun

Trill n.

A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some one part of the organs in the mouth tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or lip against another part; as, the r is a trill in most languages.

The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d

(Mus.) A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake.

verb

Trill v. t. To turn round; to twirl. (Obs.) "Bid him descend and trill another pin."

Trill v. t. (past & past part. trilled; pres. part. trilling) To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note. "The sober-suited songstress trills her lay."

Trill v. i. To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle. "And now and then an ample tear trilled down Her delicate cheek." "Whispered sounds Of waters, trilling from the riven stone."

Trill v. i. To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver. "To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet."

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"Trill" Quotes from Famous Books

... once slept now they seemed wide-awake. Keen eyes saw every moving thing, from the bees in the bluebells to the slow fishing-boats far out at sea; sharp ears that were cocked like a collie's heard every chirp and trill and rustle, and a nose that understood everything was holding up every vagrant breeze and searching it for its message. For the cubs were coming out for the first time to play in the big world, and no wild mother ever lets that happen without ...

— Northern Trails, Book I. • William J. Long

... aisle was heard a solitary tread, As of one musing sadly on the dead— 'Twas Julio; it was his wont to be Often alone within the sanctuary; But now, not so—another: it was she! Kneeling in all her beauty, like a saint Before a crucifix; but sad and faint The tone of her devotion, as the trill Of ...

— The Death-Wake - or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras • Thomas T Stoddart

... her hardened face— She had not wept for years; But the robin's trill, as some sounds will, Jarred open the door of tears. She thought of the old home far away; She heard the whr-r-r of the mill; She heard the turtle's wild, sweet call, And the wail of ...

— The Kingdom of Love - and Other Poems • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... all speeches are brisk.... A rattling conversation is in progress about a well-known songstress. The people are lauding her as divine, immortal.... Oh, how finely she had executed her last trill that evening! ...

— A Reckless Character - And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

... Nehushta rarely left her own part of the palace until the evening. But when the sun was low, she loved to linger among the roses in the garden, till the bright shield of the moon was high in the east, or till the faint stars burned in their full splendour, and the nightingales began to call and trill their melancholy song from end to end of the ...

— Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster • F. Marion Crawford

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