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Definition & Synonyms
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• Whistle
- (v. i.) To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air.
- (v. t.) To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
- (v. i.) A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswains pipe; the blackbirds mellow whistle.
- (v. i.) To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds.
- (v. t.) To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air.
- (v. i.) The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of whistling.
- (v. i.) To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument, somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone.
- (v. i.) An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a childs whistle; a boatswains whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam).
- (v. i.) The shrill sound made by wind passing among trees or through crevices, or that made by bullet, or the like, passing rapidly through the air; the shrill noise (much used as a signal, etc.) made by steam or gas escaping through a small orifice, or impinging against the edge of a metallic bell or cup.
Synonyms:
Sing, Whistling,
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• Whistled
- (imp. & p. p.) of Whistle
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• Whistlefish
- (n.) A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.
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