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Call :: Call (n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty..

Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam)..

Golden-eye :: Golden-eye (n.) A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common..

Pipe :: Pipe (n.) The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird..

Sorgne :: Sorgne (n.) The three-beared rocking, or whistlefish..

Whistlewing :: Whistlewing (n.) The American golden-eye.

Whistle :: Whistle (v. t.) To send, signal, or call by a whistle..

Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The ring ousel.

Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The whistlefish.

Whistlefish :: Whistlefish (n.) A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe..

Whew :: Whew (v. i.) To whistle with a shrill pipe, like a plover..

Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it..

Whistlewood :: Whistlewood (n.) The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple..

Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The widgeon.

Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) The shrill sound made by wind passing among trees or through crevices, or that made by bullet, or the like, passing rapidly through the air; the shrill noise (much used as a signal, etc.) made by steam or gas escaping through a small orifice, or impinging against the edge of a metallic bell or cup..

Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument, somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone..

Flute :: Flute (v. t.) To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute..

Pipe :: Pipe (v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle..

Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds..

Calliope :: Calliope (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers..

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