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DRILL . (I) A See also:tool for See also:boring or making holes in hard sub-stances, such as See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal, &c. (an See also:adaptation in the 17th See also:century from the Dutch dril or drille, from drillen, to turn, See also:bore a hole; according to the New See also:English See also:Dictionary the word is not to be connected with the English thrill "). The word drillen was used in Dutch, See also:German and Danish, from the 17th century for training in military exercises and was adopted into English in the same sense. The origin of the application seems to be in the See also:primary sense of " to turn See also:round," from the turning of the troops in their evolutions and from the turning of the weapons in the soldiers' hands. Drill is, formally, the preparation of soldiers for their duties in See also:war by the practice or See also:- REHEARSAL (from " rehearse," to say over again, repeat, recount, O.Fr. rehercer, from re, again, and hercer, to harrow, cf. " hearse," the original meaning being to rake or go over the same ground again as with a harrow)
rehearsal of movements in military See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order and the handling of arms, and, psychologically, the method of producing in the individual soldier habits of self-See also:control and of mechanically precise actions under disturbing conditions, and of rendering the See also:common instinctive will of a See also:body of men, large or small, amenable to the control of, and susceptible to a stimulus imparted by its See also:commander's will.
(2) A furrow made in the See also:soil in which See also:seed may be sown, and a See also:machine used for See also:sowing seed in such furrows (see SowING). The word is somewhat doubtful in origin. It may be the same as an obsolete word " drill," to trickle, flow in drops, also a small stream or flow of See also:water, a rill, and is possibly an altered See also:form of " trill."
• (3) In See also:zoology, the native name of a large See also:short-tailed See also:west See also:African See also:baboon, Papio leucophaeus, closely allied to the See also:mandrill (q.v.), but distinguished by the See also:absence of brilliant See also:blue and See also:scarlet on the jaws of the fully adult See also:males.
(4) The name of a fabric made in both See also:linen and See also:cotton, and commonly bleached and finished stiff. The word is a shortened form of " drilling," from the German drillich, or " three threaded," and is so named because the weave originally used in its construction is what is termed the three-See also:leaf See also:twill, nine repeats of which appear in the accompanying figure, while
immediately below the See also:design is an intersection of all the nine threads with the first pick. It is essentially a warp-faced fabric; that is, the upper See also:surface is composed mostly of warp threads. In the figure it will be seen that two out of every three threads appear on the surface, and, by introducing a greater number of threads per See also:inch than picks per inch, the weft is made to occupy a still more subordinate position so far as the upper surface of the See also:cloth is concerned. Although the weave shown is still extensively used in this See also:branch, there are others, e.g. the 4-See also:- THREAD (0. Eng. praed, literally, that which is twisted, prawan, to twist, to throw, cf. " throwster," a silk-winder, Ger. drehen, to twist, turn, Du. draad, Ger. Draht, thread, wire)
thread and the 5-thread weaves, which are employed for the See also:production of this cloth. Large quantities of drill are shipped to the Eastern markets and to other sub-tropical centres, from which it is sold for clothing. In temperate climates it forms a satisfactory material for ladies' and See also:children's summer clothing, and it is used by chefs, hairdressers, See also:provision merchants, grocers, buttermen, painters and decorators, &c.,while many of the See also:long jackets or overalls, such as those worn by many See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill and factory managers, are made from the same material.
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