Whistle

hwis'sl, v. [whistled (-sld), whistling.] To utter a kind of musical sound, by pre ing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; to make a shrill sound with a wind instrument, or with a steam whistle to blow a sharp, shrill tone; to sound shrill, or like a pipe.— v. To form, utter, or modulate by whistling to send, direct, sig am, fame, far, pa or opera, fare gnd, WHITE nal, or call by a whistle. — n. A sharp, shrill sound, made by pre ing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through an instrument which gives a similar sound the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; the shrill sound made by wind pa ing among trees or through crevices shrill noise of steam or gas escaping through a small orifice or impinging against the edge of a bra cup; an instrument producing a sound like that made by the pa ages sage ofoi breath ore am throughuirougn tnethe compre ed compre ed lips;lips; the mouth,h, as as the the organoi of whistling. [AS. hwistUim to whistle, Dan. hvide, to whistle, hi .]—Whis'tler, hwis'ler, n.n. One One who who whistles.whistles. [AS.[AS. hwistlere.}