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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..

Stridulate :: Stridor (n.) A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise..

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

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

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

Sharp :: Sharp (superl.) Affecting the sense as if pointed or cutting, keen, penetrating, acute: to the taste or smell, pungent, acid, sour, as ammonia has a sharp taste and odor; to the hearing, piercing, shrill, as a sharp sound or voice; to the eye, instantaneously brilliant, dazzling, as a sharp flash..

Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air..

Coyote :: Coyote (n.) A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl..

Acute :: Acute (a.) High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent..

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

Pipe :: Pipe (v. i.) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

Screaming :: Screaming (a.) Having the nature of a scream; like a scream; shrill; sharp.

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

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

Yelper :: Yelper (n.) The avocet; -- so called from its sharp, shrill cry..

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

Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle..

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..

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

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

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