Trill (?), v. i. [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.
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.
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Trill (?), v. t. [OE. trillen; cf. Sw. trilla to roll.]
To turn round; to twirl.
[Obs.]
Gascoigne.
Bid him descend and trill another pin.
Chaucer.
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Trill, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trilled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trilling.] [It. trillare; probably of imitative origin.]
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.
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Trill, v. i.
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.
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Trill, n. [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.
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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