rills

{ ‖ ‖ } n. [ Mex. Sp., fr. Sp. alfiler pin. ] Same as Alfilaria. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

/mhw>, a. [ Cf. NL. arillatus, F. arillé. ] Having an aril. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Arillus + Gr. e'i^dos form. ] (Bot.) A false aril; an aril originating from the micropyle instead of from the funicle or chalaza of the ovule. The mace of the nutmeg is an arillode. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖/mhw>, n. [ From LL. arilli dry grapes, perh. fr. L. aridus dry: cf. F, . arille. ] (Bot.) A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed of the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., dim. of bandera banner. See Banner, and cf. Banderole. ] A barbed dart carrying a banderole which the banderillero thrusts into the neck or shoulder of the bull in a bullfight. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] One who thrusts in the banderillas in bullfighting. W. D. Howells. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Sp. barrilla. ] 1. (Bot.) A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Com.) (a) The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes. (b) Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Copper barilla (Min.), native copper in granular form mixed with sand, an ore brought from Bolivia; -- called also Barilla de cobre. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., dim. of baril barrel. ] A little cask, or something resembling one. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To furnish or deck with a frill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Corn. brilli mackerel, fr. brith streaked, speckled. ] (Zool.) A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Brilliancy. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Brilliant. ] The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brightness, whether in a literal or figurative sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖adv. [ It. See Brilliant, a. ] (Mus.) In a gay, showy, and sparkling style. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. brillant, p. pr. of briller to shine or sparkle (cf. Pr. & Sp. brillar, It. brillare), fr. L. beryllus a precious stone of sea-green color, Prov. It. brill. See Beryl. ] 1. Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Distinguished by qualities which excite admiration; splendid; shining; as, brilliant talents. [ 1913 Webster ]

Washington was more solicitous to avoid fatal mistakes than to perform brilliant exploits. Fisher Ames. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Exceedingly intelligent, or of distinguished accomplishment in a field; -- as, a brilliant chemist. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- See Shining. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. brillant. See Brilliant, a. ] 1. A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it is rendered more brilliant. It has at the middle, or top, a principal face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the girdle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered with facets on the surface, and is flat below. [ 1913 Webster ]

This snuffbox -- on the hinge see brilliants shine. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Print.) The smallest size of type used in England printing. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This line is printed in the type called Brilliant. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A kind of cotton goods, figured on the weaving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. brillantine. See lst Brilliant. ] 1. An oily composition used to make the hair manageable and glossy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A dress fabric having a glossy finish on both sides, resembling alpaca but of superior quality. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. In a brilliant manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Brilliancy; splendor; glitter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ CF. G. brille spectacles, D. bril, fr. L. berillus. See Brilliant. ] The hair on the eyelids of a horse. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., prawn. ] (Zool) A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., a small room. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The private audience chamber of a king. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. carillon a chime of bells, originally consisting of four bells, as if fr.. (assumed) L. quadrilio, fr. quatuer four. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Mus.) A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tune adapted to be played by musical bells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp., small thin bark, Peruvian bark, dim. of cáscara bark. ] (Bot.) A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cascarilla bark (or
Cascarilla) (Med.), the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, mixed with smoking tobacco, when it is said to occasion vertigo and intoxication. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Drilled p. pr. & vb. n. Drilling. ] [ D. drillen to bore, drill (soldiers); probably akin to AS. pyrlian, pyrelian, to pierce. See Thrill. ] 1. To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Frederic the Great ] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bow drill,
Breast drill. See under Bow, Breast. --
Cotter drill, or
Traverse drill, a machine tool for drilling slots. --
Diamond drill. See under Diamond. --
Drill jig. See under Jig. --
Drill pin, the pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem of the key. --
Drill sergeant (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer whose office it is to instruct soldiers as to their duties, and to train them to military exercises and evolutions. --
Vertical drill, a drill press. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Trill to trickle, Trickle, Dribble, and W. rhillio to put in a row, drill. ] 1. To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. [ R. ] Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

See drilled him on to five-fifty. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This accident hath drilled away the whole summer. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To trickle. [ Obs. or R. ] Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To sow in drills. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A small trickling stream; a rill. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Agr.) (a) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. (b) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. (c) A row of seed sown in a furrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Drill is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, drill barrow or drill-barrow; drill husbandry; drill plow or drill-plow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drill barrow, a wheeled implement for planting seed in drills. --
Drill bow, a small bow used for the purpose of rapidly turning a drill around which the bowstring takes a turn. --
Drill harrow, a harrow used for stirring the ground between rows, or drills. --
Drill plow, or
Drill plough, a sort plow for sowing grain in drills. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Mandrill. ] (Zool.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophæus). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Usually in pl. ] (Manuf.) Same as Drilling. [ 1913 Webster ]

Imperial drill, a linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, drills. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. drillich, fr. L. trilix having three threads, fr. the of tres three + licium a thread of the warm. See Three, and cf. Twill. ] (Manuf.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of piercing with a drill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A training by repeated exercises. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of using a drill in sowing seeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mech.) A contrivance for holding and turning a drill. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Man.) A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + thrill. ] To pierce; to thrill. [ Obs. ] Sackville. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a sandal with a sole made of rope or rubber and a cloth upper part. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. ex- + arillate. ] (Bot.) Having no aril; -- said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. fibrillæ [ NL. See Fibril. ] A minute thread or fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of of pertaining to fibrils. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with fibrils; fringed. [ 1913 Webster ]