Crossword clues for warble
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wormil \Wor"mil\, n. [Cf. 1st Warble.]
(Zo["o]l.) Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble. [Written also wormal, wormul, and wornil.]
(Far.) See 1st Warble, 1 (b) .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old North French werbler "to sing with trills and quavers" (Old French guerbloiier), from Frankish *werbilon (cognate with Old High German wirbil "whirlwind," German Wirbel "whirl, whirlpool, tuning peg, vertebra," Middle Dutch wervelen "to turn, whirl"); see whirl (v.). Related: Warbled; warbling. The noun is recorded from late 14c.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context military English) In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrow band noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To modulate a tone's frequency. 2 (context transitive English) To sing like a bird, especially with trills. 3 (context transitive English) To cause to quaver or vibrate. 4 (context intransitive English) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously. Etymology 2
n. A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus ''Hypoderma''.
WordNet
n. a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "warble".
No, as a parting favor, I shall reveal only your master atrocity, which is this: that you have the brazen effrontery to imagine that your throaty warble should be called singing, and that your caterwauling on the lyre and your sins on the cithara pass, in any sense, for art.
As the image of Dev Sibwarra warbled on about the joys of entechment, Escort number two leaned forward for a better view, although his upright posture did not appear to change.
Habit had almost conferred upon her the power of spontaneous poesy, and while she pressed his forehead to her bosom, she warbled forth a strain airy and exuberant in numbers, tender and exstatic in its imagery.
Their greatest pleasure was to sit along a girder and open their amplified senses to the depths of space, watching stars past the limits of ultraviolet and infrared, or staring into the flocculate crawling plaque of the surface of the sun, or just sitting and soaking in watts of solar energy through their skins while they listened with wired ears to the warbling of Van Allen belts and the musical tick of pulsars.
In the predawn coolness, it was rather charming to listen to the first, fresh voices caroling out their wares: a soprano from the plumbing dealer gateward, a warbling tenor from the pottery shop closer at hand.
And, methinks, that the hum of a welcome is come, And is warbling the Jorram to you.
Each morning, I awoke to hear the kookaburras laughing and the maggies warbling.
They were barely three million kilometers distant, and their icons radiated the vicious, strobing rays of radar and lidar while a warning signal warbled.
As it turned out, the whistler was only the first of a family of sferics whose taxonomy was to include clicks, hooks, risers, nose-whistlers and one like a warbling of birds called the dawn chorus.
Would the sun shine for us more bravely, or the flowers give forth a sweeter breath, or yonder warbling vireo, hidden in her leafy choir, send down more pure and musical descants, sweetly attuned by natural magic to woo and win our thoughts from vanity and hot desires into a harmony with the tranquil thoughts of God?
R2 warbled acknowledgment, and a course layout appeared on the computer display.
Hyos--qklyffwas The droid warbled, backed up, came forward, hesitated.
Ardent Fang put one of those holes to his lips, and a lofty, sparkling corolla of sound warbled around them.
Taj, of course, had no difficulty participating, individual bursts of fire bursting forth from his throat as he warbled sonorously, singing fireworks as well as harmony, a veritable symphony of light and sound unto himself.
The alien warbled in surprise as the Spartan spun and ducked back around the corner.