To bore; pierce; perforate; drill: thirl. Compare thirl, 1.
To penetrate or permeate with a sudden wave of feeling, as of pleasure, pity, remorse, etc.; affect or fill with a tingling emotion or sensation. Compare thirl, 2.
To hurl.
To penetrate or permeate; pass, run, or stir with sudden permeating inflow; move quiveringly or so as to cause a sort of shivering sensation.
To be agitated or moved by or as by the permeating inflow of some subtle feeling or influence; quiver; shiver.
To quiver or move with a tremulous movement; vibrate; throb, as a voice.
noun.
A warbling; a trill.
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A hole; specifically, a breathing-hole: a nostril. Compare nostril (nose-thrill).
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A subtle permeating influx of emotion or sensation; a feeling that permeates the whole system with subtle, irresistible force: as, a thrill of horror.
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In medicine, a peculiar tremor felt, in certain conditions of the respiratory or circulatory organs, upon applying the hand to the body; fremitus.
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A throb; a beat or pulsation.
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A tale or book the hearing or perusal of which sends a thrill or sensation of pleasure, pity, or excitement through one; a sensational story.
To warble; trill.