Whistle
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. A small wind instrument.
2. The sound made by a small wind instrument.
3. Sound made by pressing the breath through a small orifice of the lips.
4. The mouth; the organ of
whistling. [Vulgar.]
5. A small pipe, used by a
boatswain to
summon the sailors to their duty; the boatswains call.
6. The
shrill sound of winds passing among trees or through crevices, etc.
7. A call, such as
sportsmen use to their dogs.
Whistle
[Verb intransitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. hwisl. [Latin , a whistle; allied to
whisper.]
2. To utter a kind of musical sound, by pressing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips.
3. While the
plowman near at hand, whistles
oer the furrowd land.
4. To make a sound with a small wind instrument.
5. To sound
shrill, or like a pipe.
6. The wild winds whistle and the billows
roar.
Whistle
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
2. To call by a whistle; as, he
whistled back his dog.
Whistle
[Verb intransitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. 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.
2. To make a
shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument, somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp,
shrill tone.
3. To sound
shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp,
shrill sound; as, a
bullet whistles through the air.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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).
7. The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of
whistling.
Whistle
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
2. To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
A local name of a species of Gadus, with only
tow fins on the back; the Mustela fluviatilis.
Whistled
[Participle passive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
Sounded with a pipe; uttered in a
whistle.
Whistler
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a
whistling sound.
4. The golden-eye.
6. The
hoary, or northern,
marmot (Arctomys pruinosus).
