Shrill /(?)/

1. Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a sound.

   Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confused.

   Let winds be shrill, let waves roll high.

1. A shrill sound. [Obs.]

imp. & p. p. Shrilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shrilling

1. To utter an acute, piercing sound; to sound with a sharp, shrill tone; to become shrill.

   Break we our pipes, that shrilledloud as lark.

   No sounds were heard but of the shrilling cock.

   His voice shrilled with passion.

1. To utter or express in a shrill tone; to cause to make a shrill sound.

   How poor Andromache shrills her dolors forth.