From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trill \Trill\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trill \Trill\, verb (used without an object) 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trill \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}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trill \Trill\, verb (used without an object) [OE. trillen to roll, turn round; of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. trilla to roll, Dan. trilde, Icel. [thorn]yrla 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trill \Trill\, verb (used with an object) [OE. trillen; cf. Sw. trilla to roll.] To turn round; to twirl. [Obs.] --Gascoigne.
Bid him descend and trill another pin. --Chaucer.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it [syn: {shake}]
verb
1: pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme 'r'; "Some speakers trill their r's"
2: sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below [syn: {warble}, {quaver}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
102 Moby Thesaurus words for "trill": Bebung, anthem, babble, ballad, bubble, burble, cackle, call, carol, caw, chant, chatter, cheep, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, choir, chorus, chuck, clack, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, coo, croak, cronk, croon, crow, cuckoo, descant, distill, do-re-mi, dribble, drip, drop, drum, falter, flutter, gabble, gaggle, gobble, guggle, gurgle, honk, hoo, hoot, hum, hymn, intonate, intone, lap, leak, leak out, lilt, minstrel, peep, pip, pipe, plash, psalm, purl, quack, quaver, quiver, ripple, roll, roulade, scold, serenade, shake, sing, sing in chorus, slosh, sol-fa, solmizate, splash, squawk, swash, swish, tremble, tremolando, tremolant, tremolo, tremor, trickle, trillet, trilleto, trillo, troll, tweedle, tweedledee, tweet, twit, twitter, vibrato, vocalize, warble, wash, weep, whistle, yodel
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