Category:Trill

Trill, v. i. Etym: [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.]

Defn: to flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each Other; to trickle. Sir w. Scott. And now and then an ample tear trilled down her delicate cheek. Shak. Whispered sounds of waters, trilling from the riven stone. Glover.

Trill Trill, v. t. Etym: [oe. trillen; cf. Sw. trilla to roll.]

Defn: to turn round; to twirl. [obs.] Gascoigne. Bid him descend and trill another pin. Chaucer.

Trill Trill, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trilling.] Etym: [it. trillare; probably of imitative origin.]

Defn: to impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a Trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note. The sober-suited songstress trills her lay. Thomson.

Trill Trill, v. i.

Defn: to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous Vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver. To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet. Dryden.

Trill Trill, n. Etym: [it. trillo, fr. trillare. See trill to shake.]

1. 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.

2. The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a Trill to the tongue. d

3. (mus.)

Defn: 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.