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s rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle. Sir W. Scott. And now and then an ample tear trilled down Her delicate cheek. Shak. Whispered sounds Of waters, trilling from the riven stone. Glover.

The oyster catcher. [Prov. Eng.]

One of tree children born at the same birth. Wright.

According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit wit…

A genus of liliaceous plants; the three-leaved nightshade; -- so called because all the parts of the plant are in threes.

A trill or shake. See Trill.

A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; --called also the inverted mordente.

An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.

A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.

nging to the class Dictyogenæ, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceæ, Smilaceæ, Trilliaceæ, etc.

One of the dog days. Dogday cicada (Zoöl.), a large American cicada (C. pruinosa), which trills loudly in midsummer.

ot.), the daisy. See Marguerite. -- Herb Paris (Bot.), an Old World plant related to the trillium (Paris quadrifolia), commonly reputed poisonous. -- Herb Robert (Bot.), a species of Geranium (G. Robertianum.)

An embellishment resembling a trill.

e under Enchanter. -- Stinking nightshade. See Henbane. -- Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium.

voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument

ther and thither in quick succession. -- To roll one's r's, to utter the letter r with a trill. [Colloq.]

To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.

e distinct leaflets; having the leaflets arranged in threes. Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium.

A warbling; a trill.

A unit for the measurement of small intervals of time, such that 1012 (ten trillion) of these units make one second.