TRILL

vt to turn round; to twirl.

2. trill ·noun the action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d.

3. trill ·vi to flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.

4. trill ·vt to impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note.

5. trill ·vi to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.

6. trill ·noun 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.

7. trill ·noun 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.