prill

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  1. To flow with a murmuring sound; purl. An alabaster image of Diana, a woman for the most part naked, and water conveyed from the Thames prilling from her naked breast. Whalley, Note to B. Jonson's Cynthia's Revels, i. 1.
  2. A child's whirligig.
  3. A small stream of water. Halliwell. [Provincial English] Each siluer prill gliding on golden sand. Davies, Microcosmos, p. 12. (Davies.)

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  1. Perhaps a variant of pirl, purl: see purl. The words spelled prill are scantly represented in literary use, and are more or less confused with one another.
  2. from Middle English prille, a whirligig; cf. prill, v.
  3. Middle English prillen, prilen, pierce; origin obscure.
  4. Origin obscure.
 

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