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单词 prill
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prilln.1

Forms: late Middle English prille, late Middle English prylle.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Perhaps a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: pirl v.; Italian pirla.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < a metathesised form of the base of pirl v. (compare also Middle Eng. Dict. s.v. pirle adj.), or alternatively compare Italian †pirla, †pirlo spinning top (1598 in Florio) and Romance forms cited at pirouette n.
Obsolete.
A spinning top.
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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

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a proper name. Etymon: proper name Prill.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < Prill, pet form of the female forename Priscilla (see note). Compare jill n.Compare:1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Prill, Prop. name: short for Priscilla. (Very com.)
Obsolete. rare.
A girl, a lass.
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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

Brit. /prɪl/, U.S. /prɪl/, Welsh English /prɪl/
Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item.
Etymology: Apparently a variant of purl n.2 (compare forms at that entry). Compare slightly earlier prill v.2 and perhaps also rill n.2The identity and precise sense of the form prall in the quot. below are uncertain:1603 J. Stow Suruay of London (new ed.) 162 They found water sufficient, made their prall, and set vp the pumpe.
Now English regional (western) and Welsh English.
A small stream of running water; a rill.
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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

Brit. /prɪl/, U.S. /prɪl/
Forms: 1700s– prill, 1800s pril (English regional (Cornwall)).
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. Compare Cornish pryl sheep-droppings, tinstone, but this is likely to be < English.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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

Brit. /prɪl/, U.S. /prɪl/
Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item.
Etymology: Apparently a variant of purl v.3 (compare forms at that entry). Compare prill n.3
rare.
intransitive. To flow, spurt.
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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.3

Brit. /prɪl/, U.S. /prɪl/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prill n.4
Etymology: < prill n.4
1. transitive. Metallurgy. To add high-grade ore to (an ore sample) during assaying, so as to give the impression that the ore being assayed is of a higher quality. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
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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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