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war⋅ble

1[wawr-buhl] verb, -bled, -bling, noun
–verb (used without object)
1. to sing or whistle with trills, quavers, or melodic embellishments: The canary warbled most of the day.
2. to yodel.
3. (of electronic equipment) to produce a continuous sound varying regularly in pitch and frequency.
–verb (used with object)
4. to sing (an aria or other selection) with trills, quavers, or melodious turns.
5. to express or celebrate in or as if in song; carol.
–noun
6. a warbled song or succession of melodic trills, quavers, etc.
7. the act of warbling.

Origin:
1300–50; ME werble a tune < ONF < Gmc; cf. OHG werbel something that turns, equiv. to werb- (c. OE hweorf- in hweorfan to turn) + -el n. suffix

war⋅ble

2[wawr-buhl]
–noun Veterinary Pathology.
1. a small, hard tumor on a horse's back, produced by the galling of the saddle.
2. a lump in the skin of an animal's back, containing the larva of a warble fly.

Origin:
1575–85; orig. uncert.; cf. obs. Sw varbulde boil


warbled, adjective
war·ble 1   (wôr'bəl)   
v.   war·bled, war·bling, war·bles

v.   tr.
To sing (a note or song, for example) with trills, runs, or other melodic embellishments.
v.   intr.
  1. To sing with trills, runs, or quavers.
  2. To be sounded in a trilling or quavering manner.
n.  The act or an instance of singing with trills, runs, or quavers.

[Middle English werbelen, from Old North French werbler, of Germanic origin.]
war·ble 2   (wôr'bəl)   
n.  
    1. An abscessed boillike swelling on the back of cattle, deer, and certain other animals, caused by the larva of a warble fly.
    2. The warble fly, especially in its larval stage.
  1. A hard lump of tissue on a riding horse's back caused by rubbing of the saddle.

[Probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to obsolete Swedish varbulde.]

Warble

War"ble\, n. [Cf. Wormil.]

1. (Far.) (a) A small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling. (b) A small tumor produced by the larv[ae] of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles.

2. (Zo["o]l.) See Wormil.

Warble

War"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Warbling.] [OE. werbelen, OF. werbler; of Teutonic origin; cf. G. wirbeln to turn, to warble, D. wervelen, akin to E. whirl. See Whirl.]

1. To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs.

2. To utter musically; to modulate; to carol.

If she be right invoked in warbled song. --Milton.

Warbling sweet the nuptial lay. --Trumbull.

3. To cause to quaver or vibrate. "And touch the warbled string." --Milton.

Warble

War"ble\, v. i. 1. To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.

Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat. --Gay.

3. To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations. "Birds on the branches warbling." --Milton.

3. To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.

Warble

War"ble\, n. A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song.

And he, the wondrous child, Whose silver warble wild Outvalued every pulsing sound. --Emerson.
Language Translation for : warble
Spanish: trinar, gorjear,
German: trillern,
Japanese: さえずる

warble  (v.)
c.1300, from O.N.Fr. werbler "to sing with trills and quavers," from Frank. *werbilon (cf. O.H.G. wirbil "whirlwind," Ger. Wirbel "whirl, whirlpool, tuning peg, vertebra," M.Du. wervelen "to turn, whirl"); see whirl. The noun meaning "tune, melody" is recorded from c.1300. Warbler applied to Old World songbirds (1773), in North America to birds that look like them but sing little (1783).

Main Entry: war·ble
Pronunciation: 'wor-b&l
Function: noun
1 : a swelling under the hide especially of the back of cattle, horses, andwild mammals caused by the maggot of a botfly or warble fly
2 : the maggot of a warble fly —war·bled /-b&ld/ adjective
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