WHISTLE  , the shrill warbling See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound made by forcing the breath through the lips, contracted to See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form a small orifice, or produced by means of an See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument of the whistle type; also, generally, any similar shrill, hissing or warbling sound, as of a See also:

• BIRD

bird's See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note, of See also:

• WIND
• WIND (a common Teut. word, cognate with Skt. vats, Lat. ventus, cf. " weather," to be of course distinguished from to " wind," to coil or twist, O.Eng. windan, cf. "wander," "wend," &c.)

wind through trees, See also:

• ROPES, JOHN CODMAN (1836–1899)

ropes, &c . The O . Eng. hwistlian, to whistle, and hwistlere, See also:

• WHISTLER, JAMES ABBOTT

whistler, See also:

• PIPER, CARL, COUNT (1647-1716)

piper, are closely allied to hwisprian or h10 strian, to whisper, to speak softly or under one's breath; and both are imitative words, representing a shrill hissing sound, cf . Ger. wispeln, to whisper, See also:

• DAN

Dan. hvisle, to whistle . The instrument known as a " whistle " takes many forms, from the straight See also:

• FLUTE

flute and See also:

• FLAGEOLET

flageolet type made of See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood or See also:

• METAL
• METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)

metal and pierced with holes, to the metal signalling See also:

• PIPE

pipe used for signalling on See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board See also:

• SHIP

ship or by policemen . Similarly the See also:

• TERM

term is used of the See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

instruments sounded by the See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape of See also:

• STEAM
• STEAM (0. Eng. steam, vapour, smoke, cf. Du. steam; the origin is unknown)

steam on a See also:

• LOCOMOTIVE

locomotive or other See also:

• ENGINE
• ENGINE (Lat. ingenium)

engine and on steamships, &c., as a means of giving signals .