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   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.
   
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   And now and then an ample tear trilled down
   Her delicate cheek.
   Shak.
   
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   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.
   
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   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.
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   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.
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   To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet.
   Dryden.
   
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   Trill, n. [It. trillo, fr. trillare. See Trill to shake.]
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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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   (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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