| Trill (trill) |
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| v. i. | (?) |
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| Trill |
| [OE. trillen to roll,
turn round; of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. trilla to roll, Dan.
trilde, Icel. þyrla to whirl, and E. thrill.
Cf. Thrill.] |
To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly
succeeding each other; to trickle.
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| Trill (trill) |
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| v. t. | (?) |
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| Trill |
| [OE. trillen; cf. Sw.
trilla to roll.] |
|
To impart the
quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill
the r; to trill a note.
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To utter trills or a trill;
to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling
sound; to quaver.
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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.
The action of the organs in producing such
sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d
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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