Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To flow with a murmuring sound; purl.
- n. A child's whirligig.
- n. A small stream of water.
- To pierce.
- n. Same as brill.
- n. A small bit or quantity.
- n. In mining, the better parts of ore from which inferior pieces have been separated; a nugget of virgin metal.
- n. A button or globule of metal obtained by assaying a specimen of ore in the cupel.
- To turn sour.
- To get tipsy.
Wiktionary
- v. to flow, spurt
- n. a rill, a small stream
- n. obsolete a spinning top
- n. a pellet, a granule, a small bead
- n. rich copper ore remaining after removal of low-grade material; a droplet of copper suspended in molten slag
- n. mining A nugget of virgin metal.
- n. The button of metal from an assay.
- v. to produce pellets by forming a molten substance into droplets which solidify while falling
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The brill.
- v. obsolete To flow.
- n. obsolete A stream.
- n. A nugget of virgin metal.
- n. Ore selected for excellence.
- n. The button of metal from an assay.
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. OED mentions Cornish pryl "sheep-droppings" as a likely loan from English. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But in certain cases, more especially where large amounts of metallic oxides are present, the slag is not so clean, and with these the slag should be powdered, mixed with 40 grams of litharge and 4 of flour, and melted again; it is an advantage to add a small prill of say 2 or 3 milligrams of silver to the charge, as it insures a visible product in the cupellation.”
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
“For example, suppose a prill has been obtained which measures 12.5 divisions of the scale, and that a standard prill weighing 0.1 milligram measures”
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
“The weight of the button is arrived at by comparing with the mean diameter of a _standard prill_ of gold of known weight.”
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
“Masterbatches are compatible with the main plastic and are supplied in either granule or prill form.”
“Ay, but the citizens favour Lucius, prill revolt from me to fuccour him.”
“He tooke his joumy abowte the beginnynge of A prill, and was sente from our King as Ambassador extraordinary vnto the Emperor, abowte the restitution of the Pallatinate, as it was sayd, but in vayne.”
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phrontistery - p
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pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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1755
Interesting words appearing in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755). Some are interesting for their unfamiliarity, and some for the meanings then assigned by Johnson.
absonous, adumbrate, agrammatist, alderlievest, ambages, ana, anfrantuous, aperitive, assapanick, babery, bellytimber, blatant and 103 more...
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5-0
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Shape Words
shapely adjectives and descriptors
clithridiate, botryose, fimbriate, filiciform, plumaceous, rhipidate, auriculate, belemnoid, cirriform, scyphate, falcate, cortinate and 127 more...
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Geology Words
The descriptive science described.
earth, lithosphere, mineral, convection, heat flow, ore, deep time, fossil, formation, rock, tectonics, extinction and 281 more...
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The Other Side of Silence
A sound garden.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. --Walt Whitmantin cry, chark, gride, scroop, crepitation, stridulation, swazzle, death-ruckle, cronk, rumble, borborygmus, crowling and 165 more...
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