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outˈshrill, v.
[out- 18, 14.]
1. trans. To outdo or surpass in shrilling; to make a shriller noise than; to exceed in shrillness.
1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iii. Law 20 For the loud Cornet of my long-breath'd stile Out-shrils yee still. 1644Z. Boyd Gard. Zion in Zion's Flowers (1885) App. 10/2 Let not the words of vaine men with their noise, Out shrill the precepts of God's divine voice. 1894G. Moore Esther Waters xxxii. 260 Like so many challenging cocks, each trying to outshrill the other.
2. intr. To shrill out; to sing shrilly. poet.
a1879J. Addis Elizab. Echoes 29 Peace, Save when the nightingale outshrilleth. |