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See Rille.

One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon.

A little rill. Burton.

A small brook. The brooks, the becks, the rills. Drayton.

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.

current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones. Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage race. Young.

to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. Gray.

olate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings. The latent rill, scare oozing through the grass. Thomson.

tions. Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, Louder and louder purl the falling rills. Pope.

A bank, shore, or coast. [Archaic] Spenser. From the green rivage many a fall Of diamond rillets musical. Tennyson.

Rough; rugged; jaggy. Milton. [A rill] that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell. Keble.

ous*ly, adv. Streaking the ground with sinuous trace. Milton. Gardens bright with sinuous rills. Coleridge.

from a hole; blood spouts from an artery. All the glittering hill Is bright with spouting rills. Thomson.

eless; -- sometimes used as a conjunction. See Synonym of But. As sunshine, broken in the rill, Though turned astray, is sunshine still. Moore.

A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.

ed with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple. I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills. S. F. Smith.