What is "lilts"

Usage examples of "lilts".

Soft gray and pink as the sky lightened, and then the sun would warm the night-closed blossoms, their fragrance drifting to beguile senses: and the rising lilts of bird, the gentle susurrus of waves on the shore, and the lift in the spirit for the pleasure of a new day, for the duties of the day: climbing the polly for the ripe fruit, fishing off the end of a headland, the bright sun on the water, the rising breeze, the colors of day, the aroma of frying fish, the somnolence of midday when the sun's heat sent people to hammock or mat .

He wasn't as fond of opera as Killa but he knew the comic operettas, musicals, lilts, pattern songs, croons and a selection of the best of every decade back to the beginning of taped music.

It was a strange Song, with little melody, filled with breathy catches and lilts, but extraordinarily compelling and beautiful.

It was a strange song, almost with no melody, filled with breathy catches and lilts, but extraordinarily compelling and beautiful.