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noun

Thrill n. A warbling; a trill.

Thrill n. A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

Thrill n.

A drill. See 3d Drill, 1.

A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement; as, a thrill of horror; a thrill of joy.

verb

Thrill v. t. (past & past part. thrilled; pres. part. thrilling)

To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill. (Obs.) "He pierced through his chafed chest With thrilling point of deadly iron brand."

Hence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate. "To bathe in flery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice." "The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled, That sudden cold did run through every vein."

To hurl; to throw; to cast. (Obs.) "I'll thrill my javelin."

Thrill v. i.

To pierce, as something sharp; to penetrate; especially, to cause a tingling sensation that runs through the system with a slight shivering; as, a sharp sound thrills through the whole frame. "I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins."

To feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or exquisite sensation, running through the body. "To seek sweet safety out In vaults and prisons, and to thrill and shake."

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"Thrill" Quotes from Famous Books

... great thrill to be had from the memories of the American Revolution, but the American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation, and the duty laid upon us by that beginning is the duty of bringing the things then begun to a noble triumph of completion. For it seems to me that the peculiarity ...

— America First - Patriotic Readings • Various

... for duty following his imprisonment, he several times passed the girl upon deck. He noticed that she shrank from him in disgust and terror; but what surprised him was that instead of the thrill of pride which he formerly would have felt at this acknowledgment of his toughness, for Billy prided himself on being a tough, he now felt a singular resentment against the girl for her attitude, so that he came to hate her even more than he had before hated. Formerly ...

— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... of the man were fixed on the girl's body and the traveler felt her thrill of terror. The man lay there for a moment, hands flat on the ground under his chest. Then he moved forward, inching ...

— The Inhabited • Richard Wilson

... the revolutionary attempt in the bud. The next morning he was on horseback amidst the troops and the National Guard, which hemmed the rioters into the ward of St. Merri. An incident occurred there which was highly characteristic of that Parisian population, in whom a generous chord will always thrill, even in its maddest moments. The King, with my brother Nemours and his staff, had gone down the Rue des Arcis, at the end of which lively firing was heard. The troops who were massed in the street greeted the sovereign with ...

— Memoirs • Prince De Joinville

... myself upon a sunny bank; an irresistible desire to sleep was stealing over me. My feelings were highly pleasing; but a stupor gradually came over me, and banished thought. My next sensation was a thrill of agony, which no words can express. It was more intense than if thousands of pointed instruments had been thrust into every muscle of my body—plucked out, and again thrust in, with the rapidity of lightning. Thrilling coruscations ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III • Various

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