- After card game, the French produce a shrill sound - It will shriek when subjected to a blow - Kettle sound - Referee’s item - Referee’s signal - 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. - To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument,
somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone.
- A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or
connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in
taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk. - By extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs
of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded. - The nose.
- Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of
nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of
certain Actiniae when irritated.
- Jawbone - The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the
inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw
in the beak of birds. - The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects,
crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not.
See Illust. of Diptera.