adv. Obs. Also tri-, trylill, trill-lill. [A kind of onomatopœic prolongation of TRILL v.2] With the sound of flowing liquid. Hence † Trillil v., to drink with a trilling sound.
a. 1592. Greene, Jas. IV., Wks. (Rtldg.), 202. O Sir the wind runs trillill down his throat.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, 40. Whereas in wodden Mazers, and Agathocles earthen stuffe, they trillild it off before.
1600. Look About You, ix. C ij b. We’ll drinke trylill, Ifaith.
1609. Dekker, Ravens Alm., B ij b. Amongst gentlemen that haue full pursses and those that crie trilill, let the world slide.
1635. Heywood, Philocoth., 55. He that cryes trill-lill boyes, is a Rhetoritian.
