To bore; pierce; perforate; drill: thirl. Compare thirl, 1.To penetrate or permeate with a sudden wave of feeling, as of pleasure, pity, remorse, etc.; affect or fill with a tingling emotion or sensation. Compare thirl, 2.To hurl.To penetrate or permeate; pass, run, or stir with sudden permeating inflow; move quiveringly or so as to cause a sort of shivering sensation.To be agitated or moved by or as by the permeating inflow of some subtle feeling or influence; quiver; shiver.To quiver or move with a tremulous movement; vibrate; throb, as a voice.n. A hole; specifically, a breathing-hole: a nostril. Compare nostril (nose-thrill).n. A subtle permeating influx of emotion or sensation; a feeling that permeates the whole system with subtle, irresistible force: as, a thrill of horror.n. In medicine, a peculiar tremor felt, in certain conditions of the respiratory or circulatory organs, upon applying the hand to the body; fremitus.n. A throb; a beat or pulsation.n. A tale or book the hearing or perusal of which sends a thrill or sensation of pleasure, pity, or excitement through one; a sensational story.To warble; trill.n. A warbling; a trill.