Sonorous, resonant, shrill.

Originally of a voice: clear and resonant. In later use more generally of sound, esp. musical sound: clear, ringing, and typically high-pitched…

Of voice, sound: Of a sharp high-pitched piercing tone.

Of sound: Penetrating, shrill, high-pitched.

transferred. Of things, substances, or agencies that affect the senses. Of sound, light, scent: Sharp, piercing, penetrating; shrill; vivid; clear…

= shrill, adj. Obsolete exc. dialect.

Of cold, a noise, light, etc.: having an intense physical effect suggestive of the action of a sharp-pointed instrument; keen and penetrating.

Of a sound: sharp or shrill in tone; high. Opposed to grave or low. Now historical.

Somewhat shrill.

= shrill, adj.

Of a sound: loud and shrill; painful to hear. Cf. piercing, adj. 1b.

Shrill; (also) that makes a sound.

Sharp-sounding, piercing; (of a voice) treble. Obsolete. rare.

Of sounds: Shrill.

Shrill, clear-sounding.

That crows (in various senses). Also of a sound, voice, etc.: resembling the crow of a cockerel; loud and shrill. Cf. chanticleer, v.

Shrill; ‘loud’; garish (cf. criant, adj.).

Of the nature of a squeal.

Made shrill.

Modifying adjectives, with the sense ‘like a bird; as —— as a bird’, as in bird-black, bird-blithe, bird-clear, bird-high.

Having a sound like the bleat of a beast.

figurative or in figurative context: chiefly used attributively with allusion to the qualities of brightness, hardness, coldness, etc…