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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..

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..

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

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

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

Shrilly :: Shrilly (a.) Somewhat shrill.

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

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..

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

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

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..

Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument, somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone..

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

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

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

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

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

Screech :: Screech (v.) To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek..

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

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

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