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Argute :: Argute (a.) Sharp; shrill.

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 It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder..

Sharpen :: Sharpen (a.) To render more shrill or piercing.

Tink :: Tink (v. i.) To make a sharp, shrill noise; to tinkle..

Whoop :: Whoop (n.) A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough..

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

Screechy :: Screechy (a.) Like a screech; shrill and harsh.

Acuteness :: Acuteness (n.) Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds.

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

Scream :: Scream (v. i.) To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech..

Shrill :: Shrill (v. i.) To utter an acute, piercing sound; to sound with a sharp, shrill tone; to become shrill..

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

Stridulation :: Stridulation (n.) The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts..

Skirl :: Skirl (n.) A shrill cry or sound.

Clarion :: Clarion (n.) A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill..

Cicada :: Cicada (n.) Any species of the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (C. septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust. Another common species is the dogday cicada..

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

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

Fife :: Fife (n.) A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music..

Shrilled :: Shrilled (imp. & p. p.) of Shril.

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