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The brill.

Tin extracted from the slag.

The appropriate music for a quadrille.

According to the French notation, which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note…

A kind of muslin.

Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax.

See Parillin.

p, piercing tone or sound; -- said a sound, or of that which produces a sound. Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confused. Shak. Let winds be shrill, let waves roll high. Byron.

Having a throat which produces a shrill note. [R.] Shak.

Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.

The quality or state of being shrill.

In a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice.

A genus of common motile microörganisms (Spirobacteria) having the form of spiral-shaped filaments. One species is said to be the cause of relapsing fever.

Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey.

A warbling; a trill.

Piercing; sharp; thrilling. [Obs.] "His thrillant spear." Spenser.

Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving; as, a thrilling romance. -- Thrill"ing*ly, adv. -- Thrill"ing*ness, n.

A machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.

rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle. Sir W. Scott. And now and then an ample tear trilled down Her delicate cheek. Shak. Whispered sounds Of waters, trilling from the riven stone. Glover.

The oyster catcher. [Prov. Eng.]