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Oxyphony :: Oxyphony (n.) Acuteness or shrillness of voice.

Yelp :: Yelp (v. i.) To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup..

Shrill-gorged :: Shrill-gorged (a.) Having a throat which produces a shrill note.

Screed :: Screed (n.) A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds..

Piping :: Piping (v.) Emitting a high, shrill sound..

Cherup :: Cherup (v. t.) To excite or urge on by making a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup..

Catcall :: Catcall (n.) A sound like the cry of a cat, such as is made in playhouses to express dissatisfaction with a play; also, a small shrill instrument for making such a noise..

Fife :: Fife (n.) A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music..

Lituus :: Lituus (n.) An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.

Shrill :: Shrill (n.) A shrill sound.

Flageolet :: Flageolet (n.) A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder..

Ear-splitting :: Ear-splitting (a.) Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains..

Stridulation :: Stridulation (n.) The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts..

Skirl :: Skirl (v. t.& i.) To utter in a shrill tone; to scream.

Shrillness :: Shrillness (n.) The quality or state of being shrill.

Squeak :: Squeak (v. i.) To utter a sharp, shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or, to make a sharp, disagreeable noise, as a pipe or quill, a wagon wheel, a door; to creak..

Skirling :: Skirling (n.) A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.

Tingle :: Tingle (v. i.) To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound..

Crow :: Crow (v. i.) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance..

Scolder :: Scolder (n.) The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries.

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