Search the Dictionary

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

A little rill. Burton.

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

A little cask, or something resembling one. Smart.

One who, or that which, drills.

Furnished with a frill or frills. Frilled lizard (Zoöl.), a large Australian lizard (Chlamydosaurus Kingii) about three feet long, which has a large, erectile frill on each side of the neck.

A lattice or grating. The grille which formed part of the gate. L. Oliphant.

A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; --called also the inverted mordente.

The appropriate music for a quadrille.

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

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

ll, etc. Neither bid him God speed. 2. John 10. He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. Granrille.

shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time. [U.S.] Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over, for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up with. New Eng. Tales.

employed along the coast to prevent smuggling; now, under the control of the admiralty, drilled as a naval reserve. [Eng.] (b) The force employed in lifesaving stations along the seacoast. [U. S.] -- Coast rat (Zoöl.), a South African mammal (Bathyergus suillus), about the size of a rabbit, remarkable for its extensiv…

The quadrille. [Obs.]

A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.

litary station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled.

is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first time through the brain a phonetic expression; -- jocosely so called from the analogy of the sound of a bell induced by the stroke of the clapper.

ing anchor, etc. -- Drag twist (Mining), a spiral hook at the end of a rod for cleaning drilled holes.

the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline. He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers. Macaulay.