0 present participle of trill
1 When birds trill, they sing a series of quickly repeated high notes.
[ + speech ] "I'll be right down!" trilled Daphne.
Instead, trilling woodwind engage in a dialogue with the brass as the energy slowly dissipates, and the work ends unresolved.
Trilling, for example, is remembered more for his criticism and teaching than for his ' ' artworks.
It is the sort of economy that is absolutely trilling.
Have not some of our strikes—and not the smallest of them—found their origin in trilling incidents which well come within the province of day-to-day working?
Who is to decide whether it is a trilling difference of opinion on which people resign from a union?
It is a sort of economy which is not worth making and it is absolutely trilling.
It is not a trilling measure.
One can easily imagine a strike which might cause some trilling inconvenience but no really deep or general suffering—a strike, for instance, in any of the so-called luxury trades.
