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noun

Lilt n.

Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness. "The movement, the lilt, and the subtle charm of the verse."

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."

verb

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."

Lilt v. i.

To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop. (Prov. Eng.)

To sing cheerfully. (Scot.)

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Etymology of 'Lilt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lilt" Quotes from Famous Books

... The lilt of the joyous words had often been with him as he sped through the sleeping fields to his ...

— Pearl of Pearl Island • John Oxenham

... and in matter these last two lines are pure Shakespeare, and Shakespeare speaks to us, too, when Prince Henry gives up Douglas to his pleasure "ransomless and free." But not only does the poet lend the soldier his own sentiments and lilt of phrase, he also presents him to us as a shadowy replica of Hotspur, even during Hotspur's lifetime. We have already noticed Hotspur's admirable answer when Glendower brags that he can call ...

— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris

... breaking his promise. One evening, when March was melting into April, and the pulses of spring were stirring under the lingering snow, he was walking home from school alone. As he descended into the little hollow below the manse a lively lilt of music drifted up to meet him. It was only the product of a mouth-organ, manipulated by a little black-eyed, French-Canadian hired boy, sitting on the fence by the brook; but there was music in the ragged urchin and it came out through his simple ...

— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... prettiness. One saw at once that her cheeks should have been pink and white like the daisy, and that her hair, which was yellow as the primrose, should have tumbled in wavelets about them. There ought to have been sunshine in the blue eyes, and laughter on the red lips, and merry lilt in the soft voice. But the pink had faded from the girl's cheek; the shadow had chased the sunshine from her eyes; her lips had taken a downward turn, and a note of sadness had stolen the merriment from ...

— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine

... passes For ever and ever, The hobble-chains' rattle, The calling of birds, The lowing of cattle Must blend with the words. Without these, indeed, you Would find it ere long, As though I should read you The words of a song That lamely would linger When lacking the rune, The voice of the singer, The lilt ...

— An Anthology of Australian Verse • Bertram Stevens

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