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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 drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill. Knight.

Same as Alfilaria.

A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. Gray.

Having an aril.

ropyle instead of from the funicle or chalaza of the ovule. The mace of the nutmeg is an arillode.

A barbed dart carrying a banderole which the banderillero thrusts into the neck or shoulder of the bull in a bullfight.

One who thrusts in the banderillas in bullfighting. W. D. Howells.

A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.

A little cask, or something resembling one. Smart.

To furnish or deck with a frill.

e turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret.

In a gay, showy, and sparkling style.

Brilliancy. Tennyson.

The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brighness, whether in a literal or figurative sense. With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought. Longfellow.

Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star.

An oily composition used to make the hair glossy.

In a brilliant manner.