grasshopper warbler

Ornith.: Salicaria locus tell a , one of the Sylvide. Its note is like that of a cricket. *gras-sil, *gris-sel, *girs-sil, v.1 . [ Fr.gresiller to crackle.] To rustle; to make a rustling or Crackling noise. "Sone eftir this of men the clamor rais, The takillis gra ill is , cabillis can frate and fra is." Douglas: Virgil , 15, 44.