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▪ I. ˈshrilling, vbl. n.
[f. shrill v. + -ing1.]
The utterance of shrill sounds, shrill crying, whistling, chirping, etc.
1639H. Ainsworth Annot. Ps. xlvii. 2 Shout trimphantly to God with voice of shrilling. 1777Mountain Poet. Reveries (ed. 2) 27 Th' excursive shrillings of some Eunuch's throat. 1778G. White Selborne xlvi. (1789) 252 The shrilling of the field-cricket. 1887D. C. Murray & Herman Trav. Returns xvii. 254 The maidens..fled..with clamorous shrillings. 1892Tennyson Death Œnone 21 A wailing cry..Thin as the batlike shrillings of the Dead. 1901W. C. Russell Ship's Adv. v, The shrilling of the fife.
b. Comb. shrilling-organ, the sound-producing organ of a male cicada (Webster Suppl. 1902).
▪ II. ˈshrilling, ppl. a.
[f. shrill v. + -ing2.]
Uttering or producing shrill sounds; sounding shrill, stridulous.
1566W. Adlington Apuleius xxii. 46 Shrilling Zephyrus. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. v. 6 A shrilling trompett. Ibid. iii. viii. 29 With shrilling shriekes. 1633P. Fletcher Pisc. Ecl. i. ii, The lads, Whose shrilling pipe, or voice the sea⁓born maiden glads. 1714Gay Sheph. Week Friday 102 Shrilling crickets in the chimney cried. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xxii, No sounds were heard but of the shrilling cock, and the deep-mouthed watch-dog. 1808Scott Marm. iv. xxvi, The horses' tramp and tingling clank,..And charger's shrilling neigh. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 259 The soul with shrilling cry, passed like smoke beneath the earth. 1908Academy 23 May 809/1 The thorn-bushes began to rustle before a shrilling wind. |