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a. & n. from Whistle, v.
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v. i.
To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air.
n.
The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple.
n.
A call by the boatswain's 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.
n.
The whistlefish.
imp. & p. p.
of Whistle
n.
The golden plover and the gray plover.
n.
The ring ousel.
n.
One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.
v. i.
The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of whistling.
n.
A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.
n.
The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus).
n.
The golden-eye.
v. t.
To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
v. i.
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.
v. t.
To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air.
n.
The widgeon.
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).
n.
The American golden-eye.
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