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- English Word Whistle Definition To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument, somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone.
- English Word Whistle Definition To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air.
- English Word Whistle Definition To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air.
- English Word Whistle Definition To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
- English Word Whistle Definition A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle.
- English Word Whistle Definition 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.
- English Word Whistle Definition 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).
- English Word Whistle Definition The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of whistling.
- English Word Whistled Definition of Whistle
- English Word Whistlefish Definition A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.
- English Word Whistler Definition One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.
- English Word Whistler Definition The ring ousel.
- English Word Whistler Definition The widgeon.
- English Word Whistler Definition The golden-eye.
- English Word Whistler Definition The golden plover and the gray plover.
- English Word Whistler Definition The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus).
- English Word Whistler Definition The whistlefish.
- English Word Whistlewing Definition The American golden-eye.
- English Word Whistlewood Definition The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple.
- English Word Whistling Definition of Whistle
- English Word Whistling Definition a. & n. from Whistle, v.
- English Word Whistlingly Definition In a whistling manner; shrilly.
- English Word Whistly Definition In a whist manner; silently.
- English Word Whit Definition The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an iota; -- generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative sentence.
- English Word White Definition Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin.
- English Word White Definition Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.
- English Word White Definition Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.
- English Word White Definition Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- English Word White Definition Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favorable.
- English Word White Definition Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.