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

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

Whoop :: Whoop (n.) A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough..

Katydid :: Katydid (n.) A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect (Cyrtophyllus concavus) of the family Locustidae, common in the United States. The males have stridulating organs at the bases of the front wings. During the summer and autumn, in the evening, the males make a peculiar, loud, shrill sound, resembling the combination Katy-did, whence the name..

Strife :: Stridulous (a.) Making a shrill, creaking sound..

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

Shrill-tongued :: Shrill-tongued (a.) Having a shrill voice.

Piping :: Piping (n.) The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc..

Screechy :: Screechy (a.) Like a screech; shrill and harsh.

Sing :: Sing (v. i.) To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice..

Acuteness :: Acuteness (n.) Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds.

Skirl :: Skirl (n.) A shrill cry or sound.

Stridulate :: Stridulate (v. t.) To make a shrill, creaking noise.

Scream :: Scream (n.) A sharp, shrill cry, uttered suddenly, as in terror or in pain; a shriek; a screech..

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

Clary :: Clary (v. i.) To make a loud or shrill noise.

Shrill :: Shrill (v. t.) To utter or express in a shrill tone; to cause to make a shrill sound.

Cicada :: Cicada (n.) Any species of the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (C. septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust. Another common species is the dogday cicada..

Flat :: Flat (superl.) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound..

Squealer :: Squeal (n.) A shrill, somewhat prolonged cry..

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