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

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

Shrilled :: Shrilled (imp. & p. p.) of Shril.

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

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 It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder..

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..

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..

Shirl :: Shirl (a.) Shrill.

Shrill :: Shrill (v. i.) Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a sound..

Whistlingly :: Whistlingly (adv.) In a whistling manner; shrilly.

Shrilling :: Shrilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shril.

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

Stridor :: Strident (a.) Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.

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

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

Pipe :: Pipe (v. t.) To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe..

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

Screech :: Screech (n.) A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream..

Hylodes :: Hylodes (n.) The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes..

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

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