Word Meanings - RILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See RILLE (more info) chamfer, OE. rigol a small brook, F. rigole a trench or furrow for 1. A very small brook; a streamlet.

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• TRENCH-PLOW; TRENCH-PLOUGH
  To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.
• TRENCHER
  1. One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches. 2. A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use. 3. The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food. It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• STREAMLET
  A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
• TRENCH
  To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. Pope. No more shall trenching war channel her fields. Shak. 3. To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose
• TRENCHANT
  1. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. " Trenchant was the blade." Chaucer. 2. Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• FURROWY
  Furrowed. Tennyson.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• TRENCHAND
  Trenchant. Spenser.
• BROOK
  A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek. The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7. Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Shak. (more info) LG. brok, marshy
• RILLET
  A little rill. Burton.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• BROOKITE
  A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
• RILLE
  One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon.
• TRENCHANTLY
  In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely.
• TRENCHMORE
  A kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance. All the windows in the town dance new trenchmore. Beau. & Fl.
• RIGOL
  A circle; hence, a diadem. Shak.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• BROOK MINT
  See MINT
• MARIGOLD
  A name for several plants with golden yellow blossoms, especially the Calendula officinalis , and the cultivated species of Tagetes. Note: There are several yellow-flowered plants of different genera bearing this name; as, the African or French
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• MARSH MARIGOLD
  . A perennial plant of the genus Caltha , growing in wet places and bearing bright yellow flowers. In the United States it is used as a pot herb under the name of cowslip. See Cowslip.
• INTRENCHANT
  Not to be gashed or marked with furrows. As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak.
• UNDERFURROW
  To cover as under a furrow; to plow in; as, to underfurrow seed or manure.
• QUADRILLE
  meeting of four or more persons or It. quadriglia a band of soldiers, a sort of dance; dim. fr. L. quadra a square, fr. quattuor four. See 1. A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set. 2. The appropriate
• GRILLE
  A lattice or grating. The grille which formed part of the gate. L. Oliphant.
• WATER-FURROW
  To make water furrows in.
• RETRENCH
  To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions. Syn. -- To lesen; diminish; curtail; abridge. (more info) 1. To cut off; to pare away. Thy exuberant parts retrench. Denham. 2. To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench
• UNTRENCHED
  Being without trenches; whole; intact.
• BUR MARIGOLD
  See TICKS
• BARILLET
  A little cask, or something resembling one. Smart.