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ing to the French notation, which is used on the Continent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a number produced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.…

xceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor. [Obs.] "His jambeux were of quyrboilly." Chaucer.

Same as Rhachilla.

Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment. Let raillery be without malice or heat. B. Jonson. Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into raillery. Addison.

A banterer; a jester; a mocker. [R.] Wycherley.

Lapilli.

A species of auk (Alca torda) common in the Arctic seas. See Auk, and Illust. in Appendix.

To distill again.

To fill, or become full, again.

To refresh; to revive. [Obs.] Aubrey.

Restoration of strength by refreshment. [Obs.] Middleton.

To light again; to cause to shine anew; to relume; to reillumine. "Thou must reillume its spark." J. R. Drake.

To enlighten again; to reillumine.

The act or process of enlightening again.

To illumine again or anew; to reillume.

time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging. "Sound a reveille." Dryden. For at dawning to assail ye Here no bugles sound reveille. Sir W. Scott.

A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.

See Rille.

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

A little rill. Burton.