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Webster 1913 Edition


Trill

Trill

,
Verb.
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.
Shakespeare
Whispered sounds
Of waters,
trilling
from the riven stone.
Glover.

Trill

,
Verb.
T.
[OE.
trillen
; cf. Sw.
trilla
to roll.]
To turn round; to twirl.
[Obs.]
Gascoigne.
Bid him descend and
trill
another pin.
Chaucer.

Trill

,
Verb.
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.

Trill

,
Verb.
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.

Trill

,
Noun.
[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
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Trill

TRILL

,
Noun.
A quaver; a shake of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument. [See Shake.]

TRILL

,
Verb.
T.
To utter with a quavering or tremulousness of voice; to shake.
The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.

TRILL

,
Verb.
I.
To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.
And now and then an ample tear trill'd down
Her delicate cheek.
1.
To shake or quaver; to play in tremulous vibrations of sound.
To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet.

Definition 2024


trill

trill

English

Noun

trill (plural trills)

  1. (music) A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it, in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.
  2. (phonetics) A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation, for example, Spanish rr.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

trill (third-person singular simple present trills, present participle trilling, simple past and past participle trilled)

  1. (intransitive) To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
    • Dryden
      To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet.
  2. (transitive) To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.
    to trill a note, or the letter r
    • Thomson
      The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To trickle.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.30:
      I come now from seeing of a shepheard at Medoc [] who had no signe at all of genitorie parts: But where they should be, are three little holes, by which his water doth continually tril from him.
    • Shakespeare
      And now and then an ample tear trilled down / Her delicate cheek.
    • Glover
      Whispered sounds / Of waters, trilling from the riven stone.

Translations

Derived terms


Albanian

Noun

trill ? (indefinite plural trillime, definite singular trilli, definite plural trillimet)

  1. whim, tantrum, bizarre fantasy

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

trill

  1. imperative of trille