Warble

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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