Word Meanings - STRIDULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make a shrill, creaking noise; specifically ,

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• CREAK
  To make a prolonged sharp grating or ssqueaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak. The creaking locusts with my voice conspire. Dryden. Doors upon their hinges creaked. Tennyson.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• SHRILLNESS
  The quality or state of being shrill.
• CREAKING
  A harsh grating or squeaking sound, or the act of making such a sound. Start not at the creaking of the door. Longfellow.
• NOISELESS
  Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time. So noiseless would I live. Dryden. -- Noise"less*ly, adv. -- Noise"less*ness, n.
• NOISEFUL
  Loud; clamorous. Dryden.
• SHRILL
  Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said a sound, or of that which produces a sound. Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confused. Shak. Let winds be shrill, let waves roll high. Byron.
• NOISETTE
  A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses
• SHRILLY
  In a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice.
• SHRILL-GORGED
  Having a throat which produces a shrill note. Shak.
• NOISE
  1. Sound of any kind. The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived. Bacon. Note: Noise is either a sound of too short a duration to be determined, like the report of a cannon; or else it is a confused mixture of many
• SCREAK
  To utter suddenly a sharp, shrill sound; to screech; to creak, as a door or wheel. (more info) Etym:
• CHINOISERIE
  Chinese conduct, art, decoration, or the like; also, a specimen of Chinese manners, art, decoration, etc.
• OUTNOISE
  To exceed in noise; to surpass in noisiness. Fuller.
• OVERNOISE
  To overpower by noise.