Part 3479

<cs><col>Imperial drill</col>, <cd>a linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling.</cd></cs>

<h1>Driller</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Drill"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, drills.</def>

<h1>Drilling</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Drill"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of piercing with a drill.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A training by repeated exercises.</def>

<h1>Drilling</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Drill"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.</def>

<h1>Drilling</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Drill"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[G. <ets>drillich</ets>, fr. L. <ets>trilix</ets> having three threads, fr. the of <ets>tres</ets> three + <ets>licium</ets> a thread of the warm. See <er>Three</er>, and cf. <er>Twill</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Manuf.)</fld> <def>A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.</def>

<h1>Drillmaster</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Drill"mas`ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics.</def>

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<h1>Drill press</h1> <Xpage=455>

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

<h1>Drillstock</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Drill"stock`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Mech.)</fld> <def>A contrivance for holding and turning a drill.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1>Drily</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Dri"ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>See <er>Dryly</er>.</def>

<i>Thackeray.</i>

<h1>Drimays</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Dri"mays</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ sharp, acrid.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of magnoliaceous trees. <i>Drimys aromatica</i> furnishes Winter's bark.</def>

<h1>Drink</h1> <Xpage=455>

<hw>Drink</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp.</tt> <er>Drank</er> <tt>(?)</tt>, formerly <er>Drunk</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; & <tt>p. p.</tt> <er>Drunk</er>, <er>Drunken</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Drinking</er>. <i>Drunken</i> is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of <i>habitually intoxicated</i>; the form <i>drank</i>, not infrequently used as a p. p., is not so analogical.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>drincan</ets>; akin to OS. <ets>drinkan</ets>, D. <ets>drinken</ets>, G. <ets>trinken</ets>, Icel. <ets>drekka</ets>, Sw. <ets>dricka</ets>, Dan. <ets>drikke</ets>, Goth. <ets>drigkan</ets>. Cf. <er>Drench</er>, <er>Drunken</er>, <er>Drown</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; <as>as, to <ex>drink</ex> from a spring</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and <b>drunken</b>; and afterward thou shalt eat and <b>drink</b>. <i>Luke xvii. 8.</i></blockquote>