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Definition of trill

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Trill (n.) A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake..

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Warble :: Warble (v. i.) To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations..

Trill :: Trill (v. t.) To turn round; to twirl.

Shake :: Shake (v.) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music..

Trill :: Trill (n.) The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d.

Trill :: Trill (n.) A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some one part of the organs in the mouth -- tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or lip -- against another part; as, the r is a trill in most languages..

Warble :: Warble (v. t.) To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs..

Trill :: Trill (n.) A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake..

Twelfth-second :: Twelfth-second (n.) A unit for the measurement of small intervals of time, such that 1012 (ten trillion) of these units make one second..

Mordente :: Mordente (n.) An embellishment resembling a trill.

Burr :: Burr (n.) A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr..

Trillo :: Trillo (n.) A trill or shake. See Trill.

Trill :: Trill (v. i.) To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle..

Thrill :: Thrill (n.) A warbling; a trill.

Warble :: Warble (n.) A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song.

Quaver :: Quaver (v. i.) Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument.

Trilling :: Trilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tril.

Trillium :: Trillium (n.) A genus of liliaceous plants; the three-leaved nightshade; -- so called because all the parts of the plant are in threes.

Birthroot :: Birthroot (n.) An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties..

Dictyogen :: Dictyogen (n.) A plant with net-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceae, Smilaceae, Trilliaceae, etc..

Trill :: Trill (v. t.) To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note..