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Brilliancy; splendor; glitter.

The hair on the eyelids of a horse. Bailey.

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.

The private audience chamber of a king.

A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys.

A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark. Cascarilla bark (or Cascarila) (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, m…

A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.

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.

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

One who, or that which, drills.

The act of piercing with a drill.

One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics. Macaulay.

A contrivance for holding and turning a drill. Knight.

A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.

To pierce; to thrill. [Obs.] Sackville.

Having no aril; -- said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them.

A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.

Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.

Of of pertaining to fibrils.

Furnished with fibrils; fringed.