intransitive verb. To produce a clear musical sound by forcing air through the teeth or through an aperture formed by pursing the lips.

intransitive verb. To produce a clear, shrill, sharp musical sound by passing air over or through an opening.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To produce a high-pitched sound when moving swiftly through the air.

intransitive verb. To produce a high-pitched sound by the rapid movement of air through an opening or past an obstruction.

intransitive verb. To emit a shrill, sharp, high-pitched cry, as some birds and other animals.

intransitive verb. To produce by whistling.

intransitive verb. To summon, signal, or direct by whistling.

intransitive verb. To signal a rule infraction committed by (a player).

noun. undefined

noun. A small wind instrument for making whistling sounds by means of the breath.

noun. A device for making whistling sounds by means of forced air or steam.

noun. A sound produced by a whistling device or by whistling through the lips.

noun. A whistling sound, as of an animal or projectile.

idiom. (blow the whistle) To expose a wrongdoing in the hope of bringing it to a halt.

idiom. (whistle in the dark) To attempt to keep one's courage up.

To utter a kind of musical sound by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips.

To emit a warbling or sharp, chirping sound or song, as a bird.

To sound shrill or sharp; move or rush with shrill or whizzing sound.

To sound a whistle or similar wind- or steam-instrument: as, locomotives whistle at crossings.

To give information by whistling; hence, to become informer.

An Australian bird, Colluricincla (or Collurocincla or Collyriocincla) harmonica, the harmonic thrush of Latham, usually placed in the family Laniidæ, now in the Prionopidœ, or another of this genus, as the Tasmanian C. rectirostris (C. selbyi). The species named are 9½ to 10 inches long, chiefly of a gray color varied with brown and white.

Same as whistlewing.

Same as whistling coot.

See snipe 1 .

In the United States, the common American swan, Cygnus amcricanus or columbianus, as distinguished from the trumpeter, C. (Olor) buccinator.

To form, utter, or modulate by whistling: as, to whistle a tune or air.

To call, direct, or signal bv or as by a whistle.

To send with a whistling sound.

noun. A more or less piercing or sharp sound produced by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips: as, the merry whistle of a boy.

noun. Any similar sound. Especially— The shrill note of a bird.

noun. A sound made by the wind blowing through branches of trees, the rigging of a vessel, etc., or by a flying missile.

noun. A call or signal made by whistling.

noun. An instrument or apparatus for producing a whistling sound. Whistles are of various shapes and sizes, but they all utilize the principle of the direct flute or flageolet—that of a stream of air so directed through a tube as to impinge on a sharp edge.

noun. Specifically

noun. The small pipe used in signaling, etc., by boatswains, huntsmen, policemen, etc.

noun. A small tin or wooden tube, fitted with a mouthpiece and pierced generally with six holes, used as a musical toy. Often called a penny whistle. See flageolet.

noun. An instrument sounded by escaping steam, used for giving signals, alarms, etc., on railway-engines, steamships, etc. Sec cuts under steam-whistle and passenger-engine.

intransitive verb. To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds.

intransitive verb. To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument, somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone.

intransitive verb. To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound.

transitive verb. To form, utter, or modulate by whistling.

transitive verb. To send, signal, or call by a whistle.

transitive verb. Hence, in general, to turn loose; to abandon; to dismiss.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of whistling.

noun. the American golden-eye.

noun. A device designed to be placed in the mouth in order to make a whistling sound.

""No, nothing out of the ordinary here. * whistle whistle* Excuse me sir, sorry, I didn't mean to step on your unconscious face.""

at one's whistle  galton's whistle  sing  slick as a whistle  to go whistle  

whistled  whistling  

communicate  displace  fipple flute  fipple pipe  go  

antimissile  bristle  dismissal  epistle  fissel  

advise  appear  aside  bell  break  

Angelus  Angelus bell  English horn  Klaxon  Mayday  

whistled  whistles  whistling