Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shrilling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shrill \Shrill\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shrilled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shrilling}.] [OE. schrillen, akin to G. schrillen; cf. AS.
scralletan to resound loudly, Icel. skr["o]lta to jolt, Sw.
skr["a]lla to shrill, Norw. skryla, skr?la. Cf. {Skirl}.]
To utter an acute, piercing sound; to sound with a sharp,
shrill tone; to become shrill.
Break we our pipes, that shrilledloud as lark.
--Spenser.
No sounds were heard but of the shrilling cock.
--Goldsmith.
His voice shrilled with passion. --L. Wallace.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
shrilling
adj : continuous and piercing; "clashing swords and shrilling
trumpets" [syn: {shrilling(a)}]
n : a continuing shrill noise; "the clash of swords and the
shrilling of trumpets"--P. J. Searles
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