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(<i>v. i.</i>) 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.<p>2. (<i>v. i.</i>) To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument, somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone.<p>3. (<i>v. i.</i>) To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air.<p>4. (<i>v. t.</i>) To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air.<p>5. (<i>v. t.</i>) To send, signal, or call by a whistle.<p>6. (<i>n.</i>) A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle.<p>7. (<i>n.</i>) The shrill sound made by wind passing among trees or through crevices, or that made by bullet, or the like, passing rapidly through the air; the shrill noise (much used as a signal, etc.) made by steam or gas escaping through a small orifice, or impinging against the edge of a metallic bell or cup.<p>8. (<i>n.</i>) An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam).<p>9. 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