2. (Com.) (a) The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes. (b) Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Copper barilla (Min.), native copper in granular form mixed with sand, an ore brought from Bolivia; -- called also Barilla de cobre. [ 1913 Webster ]

With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Distinguished by qualities which excite admiration; splendid; shining; as, brilliant talents. [ 1913 Webster ]

Washington was more solicitous to avoid fatal mistakes than to perform brilliant exploits. Fisher Ames. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Exceedingly intelligent, or of distinguished accomplishment in a field; -- as, a brilliant chemist. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- See Shining. [ 1913 Webster ]

This snuffbox -- on the hinge see brilliants shine. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Print.) The smallest size of type used in England printing. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This line is printed in the type called Brilliant. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A kind of cotton goods, figured on the weaving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dress fabric having a glossy finish on both sides, resembling alpaca but of superior quality. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

1. The private audience chamber of a king. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Mus.) A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tune adapted to be played by musical bells. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cascarilla bark (or
Cascarilla) (Med.), the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, mixed with smoking tobacco, when it is said to occasion vertigo and intoxication. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Frederic the Great ] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Imperial drill, a linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling. [ 1913 Webster ]

Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Agr.) (a) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. (b) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. (c) A row of seed sown in a furrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Drill is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, drill barrow or drill-barrow; drill husbandry; drill plow or drill-plow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drill barrow, a wheeled implement for planting seed in drills. --
Drill bow, a small bow used for the purpose of rapidly turning a drill around which the bowstring takes a turn. --
Drill harrow, a harrow used for stirring the ground between rows, or drills. --
Drill plow, or
Drill plough, a sort plow for sowing grain in drills. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bow drill,
Breast drill. See under Bow, Breast. --
Cotter drill, or
Traverse drill, a machine tool for drilling slots. --
Diamond drill. See under Diamond. --
Drill jig. See under Jig. --
Drill pin, the pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem of the key. --
Drill sergeant (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer whose office it is to instruct soldiers as to their duties, and to train them to military exercises and evolutions. --
Vertical drill, a drill press. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To sow in drills. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

See drilled him on to five-fifty. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This accident hath drilled away the whole summer. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A training by repeated exercises. [ 1913 Webster ]