Drill

(dril.) [From Du. drill en, to revolve.] (Zool.) See BABOON. -(Mil.) The common name given to the exercises and discipline by which recruits are taught and trained to military duty.-(Mech.) A small instrument used for making such holes as punches will not conveniently produce. D. are of various forms and sizes, and are used by smiths, turners, and machinists. A drilling-machine, or drill-pre , is a mechanical contrivance which embraces a series of drills for the boring of circular holes in metallic bodies.-(Agric.) A method of putting seed into the ground by means of a machine worked by steam-or horse-power, called a drill-plough, which cuts furrows in the ground as it advances, and lets the seed drop into the same, so that it eventually come sup in rows, in which the plants are found growing at regular distances apart from each other.-D.barrow, D. bor, andD.harrow, are respectively, a8 their names import, a barrow, seed-box, and harrow, used in drilling the ground aud planting seed therein; while D. husbandry is the term which designates such art or (dril'operation. ling.) (Mil.) See DRILL. (Manuf.) A kind of stout, coarse linen or cotton cloth, used for men's wearing りいい apparel; -other-LU wise known as drill, Fig. 278.- CLOISTERED DOOR, (drip's tun,) or LA- (Salisbury, A. D. 1250.) BEL.(Arch.) Apro- (Pointed or Early English Style.) jecting moulding placed upon the upper part of a doorway (Fig. 278) niche, window, ., and so channel ied that the rain will drip from it, instead of trickling down the wall. [s. 302] IMG:p0331_0.jpg:Gravür