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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Shrill, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shrilled p. pr. & vb. n. Shrilling.]  To utter an acute, piercing sound; to sound with a sharp, shrill tone; to become shrill.
    Break we our pipes, that shrilledloud as lark.   --Spenser.
    No sounds were heard but of the shrilling cock.   --Goldsmith.
    His voice shrilled with passion.   --L. Wallace.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 shrilling
      adj : continuous and piercing; "clashing swords and shrilling
            trumpets" [syn: shrilling(a)]
      n : a continuing shrill noise; "the clash of swords and the
          shrilling of trumpets"--P. J. Searles