noun. A strain of clear, rapidly uttered, gliding tones; a trilling, flexible melody; a carol; a song; any soft sweet flow of melodious sounds.

noun. A small, hard swelling on the back of a horse, produced by the galling of the saddle.

noun. A tumor on the back of cattle or doer, produced by the larva of a bot-fly or gadfly.

noun. An insect or its larva which produces warbles. Also warbeetle. Compare wabble.

In falconry, to cross the wings upon the back.

To sing with trills and quavering, or melodious turns, as a bird; carol or sing with sweetly trilling notes.

To sound vibratingly, or with free, smooth, and rapid modulations of pitch; quaver.

To yodel.

To sing or utter with quavering trills or turns: as, to warble a song.

To describe or celebrate in song.

intransitive verb. To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.

intransitive verb. To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations.

intransitive verb. To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.

noun. undefined

noun. A small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling.

noun. A small tumor produced by the larvæ of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles.

noun. See Wormil.

transitive verb. To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill.

transitive verb. To utter musically; to modulate; to carol.

transitive verb. To cause to quaver or vibrate.

noun. A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song.

verb. to modulate a tone's frequency

verb. to sing like a bird, especially with trills.

noun. a lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma.

noun. In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrow band noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered.

verb. sing by changing register; sing by yodeling

noun. a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly

verb. sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below

"They were jubilant that they'd caught somebody, but I couldn't tell if the warble was a victory salute or a sign of even worse things to come."

animal disease  sing  

corbel  

Trilling  blare  chirp  chittering  gurgle  

air  anthem  ballad  bark  bawl  

warbeetle  warblet  warnles  wormil  

warbled  warbles  warbling