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noun

Lilt n.

Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness. "The movement, the lilt, and the subtle charm of the verse."

A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune. "The housewife went about her work, or spun at her wheel, with a lilt upon her lips."

verb

Lilt v. t. To utter with spirit, animation, or gayety; to sing with spirit and liveliness. "A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous epic lilted out By violet-hooded doctors."

Lilt v. i.

To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop. (Prov. Eng.)

To sing cheerfully. (Scot.)

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Etymology of 'Lilt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lilt" Quotes from Famous Books

... silence for quite a long time after his sister had finished the story of Gerty Keane, and of her fondness for her lonesome, friendless, and unlovable father; sat gazing out upon the moonlit landscape, but seeing nothing; sat while the nightingale's lilt, plaintive and low or mournfully sweet, bubbled tremulously from the grove, but hearing nothing. And in the shadow of the old-fashioned arm-chair snuggled Flora, her eyes resting lovingly, wistfully on her brother's sad but ...

— As We Sweep Through The Deep • Gordon Stables

... Dromore' again that night with its queer haunting lilt. And when she had gone up, and he was smoking over the fire, the girl in her dark-red frock seemed to come, and sit opposite with her eyes fixed on his, just as she had been sitting while they talked. Dark red had suited her! Suited the look on her ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... Sam's lilt ceased abruptly. The riders came hurrying. Sam appeared, with Mormon waddling after, too swiftly for his best ease or grace of motion, both grabbing at Sandy, swatting him on the back ...

— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn

... the training proved worth while. He was saluted from a hundred laughing heads at a score of windows with the song that had followed him all over Canada. He drove into the College, not to the stirring strains of "Oh, Canada," but to the syncopated lilt of "Johnny's ...

— Westward with the Prince of Wales • W. Douglas Newton

... quality; some of the most famous musical composers, inspired by his works, have graced them with admirable music. One of the most attractive features in his lyrics is their spontaneous ease of expression. They seem to lilt into music of their own accord, as naturally as birds sing. The best of these are found in the comedies of the Second Period and in the romantic plays of the Fourth. "Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more" in Much Ado About Nothing; "Blow, blow, thou winter ...

— An Introduction to Shakespeare • H. N. MacCracken

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