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To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or speaking. Could any person so modulate her voice as to deceive so many Broome.

a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys.

To modulate, as the voice.

To modulate the voice in a musical, sonorous, and measured manner, as in reading the liturgy; to intone.

The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice.

One who, or that which, modulates. Denham.

To model; also, to modulate. [Obs.] Sandys. Drayton.

To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate. It hath no larynx . . . to qualify the sound. Sir T. Browne.

A plug in a flute or an organ pipe, to modulate the tone. Knight.

To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer. "Vocal worship." Milton.

To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs.

To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air.

Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument. Their instruments were various in their kind, Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind. Dryden.