trill

A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it as an ornament; in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.

A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish ⟨rr⟩, /r/.

A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats.

To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.

To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet.

To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.

to trill a note, or the letter r

The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.

To trickle.

I come now from seeing of a shepheard at Medoc[…]who had no signe at all of genitorie parts: But where they should be, are three little holes, by which his water doth continually tril from him.

And now and then an ample tear trilled down / Her delicate cheek.