单词 | prill |
释义 | † prilln.1 Obsolete. A spinning top. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun] top13.. spilquernc1375 prill1440 spilcockc1440 whirligigc1440 nun1585 nun-gig1615 Roaring Meg1632 totum1706 teetotum1720 spinner1799 spinning-top1821 jenny-spinner1824 diabolo1905 dreidel1916 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 413 Prylle, or whyrlegygge, as chylderys pley (or spylkok, infra [a1500 King's Cambr. prille of chyldrys pleyynge; ?a1475 Winch. whyrgyg]), giraculum. a1500 Medulla Gram. in Promptorium Parvulorum 413 (note) Giraculum, a pirlle.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † prilln.2 Obsolete. rare. A girl, a lass. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun] maiden-childeOE maidenOE maidc1275 maid-childc1275 wenchc1290 thernec1300 lassc1325 maidenkinc1330 child-womana1382 girlc1400 pucelle1439 maidkin1440 mawther1440 mop1466 woman-child?1515 bonnea1529 urchina1535 kinchin-mort1567 dandiprat1582 prill1587 sluta1592 little girl1603 maggie1603 tendril1603 squall1607 childa1616 filly1616 vriester1652 miss1668 gilpie1720 lassie1725 laddess1768 jeune fillea1777 bitch1785 girly?1786 gal1795 ladyling1807 missikin1815 colleen1828 girleen1833 snowdrop1833 pinafore1836 chica1843 fillette1847 charity-girl1848 urchiness1852 Mädchen1854 gel1857 pusill1884 backfisch1888 girly-girly1888 cliner1895 tittie1918 weeny1929 bobby-soxer1944 1587 M. Grove Most Famous Hist. Pelops & Hippodamia sig. E.viii The change of dames within the court: For Countrey prilles. 1587 M. Grove Most Famous Hist. Pelops & Hippodamia sig. F.ijv Though that she be a countrey prill, no weight thereof doth stand, Thinke you that some those Courtly dames are not of countrey land? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2019). prilln.3 Now English regional (western) and Welsh English. A small stream of running water; a rill. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > rill rive1489 purla1552 rilla1552 rilleta1552 strippet1577 prill1603 rillock1893 1603 J. Davies Microcosmos Pref. 10 Each silver Prill gliding on golden Sand. 1610 R. Vaughan (title) Most approved and long experienced water-workes. Containing the manner of winter and summer-drowning of medow and pasture, by the aduantage of the least riuer, brooke, fount or water-prill adiacent. 1614 J. Davies in W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. G5v By some prill, that 'mong the Pibbles plods. 1794 A. Thomas Newfoundland Jrnl. (1968) 65 Mrs Harty show'd me a little Prill that run within a few yards of the door. 1843 E. Lees Plants of Malvern Hills 19 Creeping Marsh-wort. This species abounds in the prills that run down the syenite. 1862 Temple Bar 6 464 Tints of orange-brown..coloured the prill of water running on the wayside. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Prill, a streamlet of clear water, a rill; a runnel from a spring. 1948 H. L. V. Fletcher Herefordshire 1 A tiny stream, what is known locally as a ‘prill’ comes hurrying down from the hills. ?c1982 S. Hamer Clun Dial. Words 11 Prill, small stream. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). prilln.4 1. Metallurgy (originally English regional (Cornwall)). In mining: (a piece of) rich copper ore remaining after separation and removal of low-grade material; more fully prill ore. Also: (a droplet of) copper occurring suspended in the molten slag in the process of smelting copper ore. ΚΠ 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 263 The reduced Copper, or as it is more usually called by the Cornish assayers, the Prill, will be found beneath the slagg. 1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xv. 594 At present the copper-ores..are broken or spalled as before, and divided into pieces of good ore, commonly termed prills. 1845 Mining Jrnl. 22 Nov. 660/2 Pril, a solid piece of virgin metal. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 80 Detaching from each piece the inferior portions, and thus forming prill or best dradge ore. 1919 Guide Bk. Prospectors New S. Wales (ed. 2) 41 The Carpathia alone has produced many tons of ‘prill’ ore. 1947 H. Innes Killer Mine iii. 58 They didn't knaw the difference atween prills and dradge most of 'em when the mine was workin' copper. 1982 New Scientist 17 June 774/1 There is now prehistoric evidence of the metallurgical extraction of prill—the production and collection of copper droplets formed in the unwanted slag during the smelting operation. 1991 Sci. Amer. July 65/1 Because the slag remained viscous throughout the smelting process, it trapped prills rather than allowing them to sink to the bottom of the furnace and form ingots. 2. Metallurgy. A granule or globule of metal, esp. silver or gold, obtained by assaying a specimen of ore in a cupel. ΚΠ 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (new ed.) Prill,..3. The button of metal from an assay. 1880 J. Percy Metall.: Silver & Gold i. 249 Examination of the Silver ‘Prills’ for Gold... One or more of the ‘prills’ are flattened out by hammering, and heated with dilute nitric acid [etc.]. 1977 Talanta 24 549 A pair of blank silver prills was also prepared. The prills from each sample were dissolved in aqua regia. 3. A pellet of a substance, esp. ammonium nitrate or other fertilizer, produced by forming the molten substance into droplets and allowing them to solidify while falling. Cf. prill v.3 2. ΚΠ 1952 M. D. Barnes in R. E. Kirk & D. F. Othmer Encycl. Chem. Technol. IX. 343 Solid ammonium nitrate (‘prills’) is employed for direct application to the soil. 1962 R. R. Johnson et al. in Res. Bull. Ohio Agric. Exper. Station No. 917 (title) The effectiveness of coated urea prills and copper treated urea prills as nitrogen sources for rumen microorganisms. 1995 Farmers Weekly 31 Mar. 56/2 (advt.) The research..has demonstrated conclusively that the quality and consistency of fertilizer prills have a major effect in reliably achieving the optimum rate of nitrogen application. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). prillv.1 Apparently a transmission error for þrill thrill v.1 or prik, prike prick v.Subsequently included in E. Cole Eng. Dict. (1677). ΚΠ a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 1058 Bifore the folk..These losengeris hem preyse..And aftirward they prile and poynten [Fr. poignent] The folk right to the bare boon, Bihynde her bak..And foule abate the folkis prys. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2019). prillv.2 rare. intransitive. To flow, spurt. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > purl or in a whirling motion trillc1386 purla1586 prill1598 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 252 An Image in Alablaster of a woman, (for the most part naked) and Thames water prilling from her breasts: but the same is oft times dryed vp. 1952 D. M. Jones Anathemata v. 127 From where prills the seeding under-stream. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). prillv.3ΚΠ 1884 R. Hunt Brit. Mining 912/1 A miner who attempts to cheat the assay master is said to have ‘prill'd the sample’ by unfairly slipping in a bit of superior ore. 2. transitive. To produce pellets of (a substance, esp. ammonium nitrate or other fertilizer) by forming the molten substance into droplets and allowing them to solidify while falling. Cf. prill n.4 3. ΚΠ 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Prill, to convert (a solid) into spherical pellets (as by forcing a melt through a nozzle and allowing the molten drops to solidify while falling). 1984 N. N. Greenwood & A. Earnshaw Chem. of Elements (1986) xv. 762 Alternatively it can be prilled or handled as nuggets or chunks. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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