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Stridulate :: Stridor (n.) A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise..

Stridulation :: Stridulate (v. t.) to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects..

Cherup :: Cherup (v. t.) To excite or urge on by making a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup..

Sharp :: Sharp (superl.) Affecting the sense as if pointed or cutting, keen, penetrating, acute: to the taste or smell, pungent, acid, sour, as ammonia has a sharp taste and odor; to the hearing, piercing, shrill, as a sharp sound or voice; to the eye, instantaneously brilliant, dazzling, as a sharp flash..

Oxyphony :: Oxyphony (n.) Acuteness or shrillness of voice.

Strife :: Stridulous (a.) Making a shrill, creaking sound..

Ear-splitting :: Ear-splitting (a.) Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains..

Shriek :: Shriek (n.) A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like..

Shriek :: Shriek (v. i.) To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish..

Shrilly :: Shrilly (adv.) In a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice.

Piping :: Piping (n.) The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc..

Flageolet :: Flageolet (n.) A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder..

Hylodes :: Hylodes (n.) The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes..

Piping :: Piping (v.) Emitting a high, shrill sound..

Shirl :: Shirl (a.) Shrill.

Squeak :: Squeak (v. i.) To utter a sharp, shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or, to make a sharp, disagreeable noise, as a pipe or quill, a wagon wheel, a door; to creak..

Scolder :: Scolder (n.) The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries.

Shrill :: Shrill (v. t.) To utter or express in a shrill tone; to cause to make a shrill sound.

Cherup :: Cherup (v. i.) To make a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to chirp. See Chirrup..

Pipe :: Pipe (v. i.) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

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