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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.

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.

Drill (?), n. [Cf. Mandrill.] (Zoöl.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophæus).

Drill, n. [Usually in pl.] (Manuf.) Same as Drilling.

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

Drill"er (?), n. One who, or that which, drills.

Drill"ing, n. 1. The act of piercing with a drill.

2. A training by repeated exercises.

Drill"ing, n. The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.

Drill"ing, n. [G. drillich, fr. L. trilix having three threads, fr. the of tres three + licium a thread of the warm. See Three, and cf. Twill.] (Manuf.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.

Drill"mas`ter (?), n. One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics. Macaulay.

Drill" press` . A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.

Drill"stock` (?), n. (Mech.) A contrivance for holding and turning a drill. Knight.

Dri"ly (?), adv. See Dryly. Thackeray.

||Dri"mys (dr"ms), n. [NL., fr. Gr. drimy`s sharp, acrid.] (Bot.) A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.

Drink (drk), v. i. [imp. Drank (drk), formerly Drunk (drk); & p. p. Drunk, Drunken (-'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not infrequently used as a p. p., is not so analogical.] [AS. drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, Sw. dricka, Dan. drikke, Goth. drigkan. Cf. Drench, Drunken, Drown.] 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.

Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink.

Luke xvii. 8.

He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty.

Job xxi. 20.

Drink of the cup that can not cloy.

Keble.

2. To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the &?;se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple. Pope.

And they drank, and were merry with him.

Gem. xliii. 34.

Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.

Thackeray.