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- Whistle - v. i. - 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.
- Whistle - v. i. - To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument, somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone.
- Whistle - v. i. - To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air.
- Whistle - v. t. - To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air.
- Whistle - v. t. - To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
- Whistle - v. i. - 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; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle.
- Whistle - v. i. - 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.
- Whistle - v. i. - 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; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam).
- Whistle - v. i. - The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of whistling.
- Whistled - imp. & p. p. - of Whistle
- Whistlefish - n. - A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.
- Whistler - n. - One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.
- Whistler - n. - The ring ousel.
- Whistler - n. - The widgeon.
- Whistler - n. - The golden-eye.
- Whistler - n. - The golden plover and the gray plover.
- Whistler - n. - The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus).
- Whistler - n. - The whistlefish.
- Whistlewing - n. - The American golden-eye.
- Whistlewood - n. - The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple.
- Pipe - v. i. - To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
- Whistle - v. i. - 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; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam).
- Whew - v. i. - To whistle with a shrill pipe, like a plover.
- Whistle - v. t. - To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air.
- Sough - v. i. - To whistle or sigh, as the wind.
- Blow - n. - The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows.
- Call - n. - A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.
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