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▪ I. warbling, vbl. n.1|ˈwɔːblɪŋ|
[f. warble v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the verb in various senses, esp. soft and melodious singing.
1587M. Grove Pelops & Hipp. (1878) 68 With shrillish notes I would ne stay nor stent of warbuling. 1608Willet Hexapla Exod. 231 Running catches and curious warbling. 1707Curios. Husb. & Gard. 24 The Air..resounds with the Warbling of Birds. 1825Scott Jrnl. 21 Nov. (1890) I. 6 Tom Moore's is the most exquisite warbling I ever heard.
pl.1757Gray Bard iii. iii, And distant warblings lessen on my ear. 1781Cowper Retirem. 569 The warblings of the blackbird, clear and strong. 1830Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 319 The groves..are echoing with the warblings of thousands upon thousands of birds.
b. Sc. Playing grace-notes on the bagpipe.
1896N. Munro Lost Pibroch, etc. 251, I heard him fill the night-fall with the ‘Bhoilich’ of Morar, with the brag of a whole clan in his warbling.
c. U.S. = yodeling vbl. n.
1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abr. xxviii. 257 We recognised, also, that it was that sort of quaint commingling of baritone and falsetto which at home we call ‘Tyrolese warbling’.
▪ II. † ˈwarbling, vbl. n.2 Obs.
[f. warble v.3 + -ing1.]
A vibration or quivering.
1621T. Granger Expos. Eccles. xii. 5. 323 The..spirit of life is feeble, and is little quickened with the warbling of melodious ayre. 1688Holme Armoury i. 21/1 It hath a resemblance to the Rays of the Sun, which shooteth out like the warbling of a Flame of Fire.
▪ III. warbling, ppl. a.1|ˈwɔːblɪŋ|
[f. warble v.1 + -ing2.]
1. That warbles; esp. singing or making tuneful melody with sweet quavering notes.
1549–62Sternhold & H. Ps. cxxxvii. 5 Then let my fingers quite forget, The warbling harpe to guide. 1576G. Pettie Petite Pallace 14 b, The bird..heares his felowes sing, and is not able to vtter one warbling note out of his mourneful voice. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. June 4 The gentle warbling wynde. 1610Tofte Honours Acad. iii. 119 Hauing a warbling Lute in her hand. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. vi. 114 The warbling Nightingale in Woods complains. 1757Dyer Fleece ii. 32 Alternate songs shall sooth your care, and warbling music break from ev'ry spray. 1765J. Brown Chr. Jrnl. i. 42 O hast thou tuned these birds to sing forth thy honour in their warbling notes? 1883D. C. Murray Hearts xiv. (1885) 115 The soaring soprano and the high warbling tenor.
†b. Of discourse: ? Ineffectual. (Cf. warble v.1 4 a fig.). Obs.
1621T. Granger Expos. Eccles. xii. 12. 334 He..may iustly retract the Reader from other warbling, erroneous, imperfect discourses, and treatises of men.
2. In names of birds, as the Warbling Flycatcher or Vireo, Vireo gilvus.
1783Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. i. 157 Warbling Grosbeak. 1808–14A. Wilson Amer. Ornith. (1831) II. 76 Vireo gilvus,..Warbling Flycatcher. 1888Sclater & Hudson Argentine Ornith. I. 51 Ringed Warbling Finch.
▪ IV. † ˈwarbling, ppl. a.2 Obs.
[f. warble v.3 + -ing2.]
In continual motion, quivering.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Jas. i. 13–21 He..that letteth his tongue runne at large, which is a warblyng membre and a slippery. 1573Baret Alv. F. 300 Tremula in pileo pluma, a warbling or quavering feather, &c. 1604T. Wright Passions v. §2. 170 When wee cast a stone into a calme water, we may perceiue diuers warbling naturall circles. 1632Lithgow Trav. viii. 376 Whilst I cut, and crush their [sc. the serpents'] warbling wombe. |