Trill: Definition and part of speech

Trill

  1. v. t. To turn round; to twirl.
  2. v. i. To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.
  3. v. i. To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
  4. n. 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.
  5. n. The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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