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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 596 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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WHISTLE , the shrill warbling See also:

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, of See also:

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. 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 or See also:

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 on a See also:

LOCOMOTIVE

locomotive or other See also:

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

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