Lilting vbl. sb.

[f. LILT v. + -ING¹.] The action of LILT v.; cheerful or merry singing.

1

1719. D’Urfey, Pills, VI. 350. Let’s awa’ to the Wedding, For there will be Lilting there.

2

c. 1750. Miss Eliot, Song, Flowers of Forest, i. I’ve heard the lilting at our yowe-milking, Lasses a lilting before the dawn of day.

3

Hence † Lilting-horn, a kind of trumpet. Obs.

4

c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, III. 133 (Fairfax MS.). And many flowte and liltyng horne [v.rr. lytelyng, lyltyng, litelynge].

5

14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 593/21. Lituus, a lyltynghorn [printed lylkynghorn].

6