drilling machine

A machine carrying a rotating tool and a means for chucking the object to be bored. These machines differ greatly in size and appearance, in the mode of presenting the tool, presenting and chucking the work. The larger machines are frequently known as Boring-machines (q. v.). dri-ly, adv. [DRYLY.] drim-ys, s. [ Gr.drimys =sharp, acid.] Bot.: A genus of plants belonging to the order Magnoliaceae. They are distinguished by their bitter, tonic, and aromatic qualities. Drimys winter i, or aromatic a , carried to Europe by Captain Winter from the Straits of Magellan in 1579, yields Winter's bark, which has been employed medicinally as an arematic stimulant. It somewhat resembles Canella bark. The bark of D. grana tens is is used in Brazil against the colic. It is tonic, aromatic, and stimulant. That of D. axillar is , a native of New Zealand, has similar qualities. *dring, v . i . [Flem. dringen =to draw.] 1. To drag with difficulty. "His hors, his meir, he mone len to the laird, To dring and draw, in court and cariege." Henrys one: Dannatyne Poems , p. 120, st. 20. "My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound." Shakesp.: Romeo and Juliet, ii. 2. 3. Reflex .: To make one's self drunk by drinking. "Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavil. ions."-1 Kings xx. 16. *4. To swallow up, to devour, to consume. "I drink the air before me." Shakesp.: Tempest , v. L IMG:content-0534.png:[blocks in formation] (1) To drink all out : To carouse (q. v.). (2) To drink down: (a) To destroy or take away the thought or memory of by drinking. "Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner: come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindne ."Shakesp.: Merry Wives, i. 1. (b) To beat another in drinking. (3) To drink in: (a) Lit .: To absorb readily. "The body being reduced nearer unto the earth, and emptied, be cometh more porous, and greedily drinkech in water."-Browne: Vulgar Errors. (b) Fig .: To receive or take in greedily, as with the senses: as, to drink in a person's words. "And with fixed eyes drink in immortal rays." Cowley: Davideis, bk. i. (4) To drink off : To swallow at a single draught. "One man gives another a cup of poison, a thing as terrible as death; but at the same time he tells him that it isa cordial, and so he drinks it off , and dies." South . (5) To drink to or unto : (a) To salute in drinking. "And thereupon I drink unto your grace." Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt . 11. , iv. 2. (b) To drink the health of. "Give me some wine; fill full: I drink to th' general joy of the whole table." Shakesp.: Macbeth , iii. 4. (6) To drink up : To swallow completely. "He had drank up a cup of fourteen pints, was going to take another." -Arbuthnot : On Coins. (7) To drink deep : To take a long or deep draught IMG:content-0535.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A miser, a niggardly person. "Quha finds ane dring owdir auld or ying, Gar hoy him out and hound." Bannatyne: Poems , p. 183, st. 3, drink, *drinke, *drink-en, *drynk-yn, v. i. & t. [A. S. drincan ; cogn. with Dut. drinken ; Goth. drigkan: Ger. trinken; Icel. drekka; Sw. dricka; Dan. drikke; M. H. Ger. trinken, O. H. Ger. trinkan.] IMG:content-0536.png:[blocks in formation] "We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart. Shakesp.: Hamlet , 1. 2. (8) To drink the health of a person: To wish well to him in the act of drinking; to pledge.