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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LILT, v.i.
1. To do any thing with dexterity or quickness. [Local.]
2. To sing or play on the bagpipe.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a jaunty rhythm in music [syn: lilt, swing] v
1: articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: circa 1680 1. a spirited and usually cheerful song or tune 2. a rhythmical swing, flow, or cadence 3. a springy buoyant movement II. verb Etymology: Middle English lulten to sound an alarm Date: 1722 transitive verb to sing or play in a lively cheerful manner intransitive verb 1. to sing or speak rhythmically and with fluctuating pitch 2. to move in a lively springy manner

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a a light springing rhythm or gait. b a song or tune marked by this. 2 (of the voice) a characteristic cadence or inflection; a pleasant accent. --v.intr. (esp. as lilting adj.) move or speak etc. with a lilt (a lilting step; a lilting melody). Etymology: ME lilte, lülte, of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lilt Lilt (l[i^]lt), v. i. [Cf. Norw. lilla, lirla, to sing in a high tone.] 1. To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop. [Prov. Eng.] --Wordsworth. 2. To sing cheerfully. [Scot.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lilt Lilt, v. t. To utter with spirit, animation, or gayety; to sing with spirit and liveliness. A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous epic lilted out By violet-hooded doctors. --Tennyson.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lilt Lilt, n. 1. Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness. The movement, the lilt, and the subtle charm of the verse. --F. Harrison. 2. A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune. The housewife went about her work, or spun at her wheel, with a lilt upon her lips. --J. C. Shairp.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If someone's voice has a lilt in it, the pitch of their voice rises and falls in a pleasant way, as if they were singing. Her voice is child-like, with a West Country lilt. N-SING

Moby Thesaurus

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