Hypertext Webster Gateway: "trilling"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Trilling \Tril"ling\, n. [Cf. G. drilling.]
1. One of tree children born at the same birth. --Wright.

2. (Crystallog.) A compound crystal, consisting of three
individuals.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Trill \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.

The sober-suited songstress trills her lay. --Thomson.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

Trilling
n : United States literary critic (1905-1975) [syn: {Trilling},
{Lionel Trilling}]


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