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To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding
each other; to trickle. |
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To turn round; to twirl. |
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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. |
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The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to
give a trill to the tongue. d |
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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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