English Dictionary: drool over | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Rilievo \[d8]Ri*lie"vo\, n.[It. See {Relief}.] (Sculp. & Arch.) Same as {Relief}, n., 5. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Trilobita \[d8]Tri`lo*bi"ta\, n. pl. [NL.] (Paleon.) An extinct order of arthropods comprising the trilobites. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dear-loved \Dear"-loved`\, a. Greatly beloved. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Note: Drill is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, drill barrow or drill-barrow; drill husbandry; drill plow or drill-plow. {Drill barrow}, a wheeled implement for planting seed in drills. {Drill bow}, a small bow used for the purpose of rapidly turning a drill around which the bowstring takes a turn. {Drill harrow}, a harrow used for stirring the ground between rows, or drills. {Drill plow}, [or] {Drill plough}, a sort plow for sowing grain in drills. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Note: Drill is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, drill barrow or drill-barrow; drill husbandry; drill plow or drill-plow. {Drill barrow}, a wheeled implement for planting seed in drills. {Drill bow}, a small bow used for the purpose of rapidly turning a drill around which the bowstring takes a turn. {Drill harrow}, a harrow used for stirring the ground between rows, or drills. {Drill plow}, [or] {Drill plough}, a sort plow for sowing grain in drills. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Drill \Drill\, n. 1. An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press. 2. (Mil.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill. 3. Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar. 4. (Zo[94]l.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is {Urosalpinx cinerea}. {Bow drill}, {Breast drill}. See under {Bow}, {Breast}. {Cotter drill}, [or] {Traverse drill}, a machine tool for drilling slots. {Diamond drill}. See under {Diamond}. {Drill jig}. See under {Jig}. {Drill pin}, the pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem of the key. {Drill sergeant} (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer whose office it is to instruct soldiers as to their duties, and to train them to military exercises and evolutions. {Vertical drill}, a drill press. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Note: Drill is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, drill barrow or drill-barrow; drill husbandry; drill plow or drill-plow. {Drill barrow}, a wheeled implement for planting seed in drills. {Drill bow}, a small bow used for the purpose of rapidly turning a drill around which the bowstring takes a turn. {Drill harrow}, a harrow used for stirring the ground between rows, or drills. {Drill plow}, [or] {Drill plough}, a sort plow for sowing grain in drills. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Note: Drill is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, drill barrow or drill-barrow; drill husbandry; drill plow or drill-plow. {Drill barrow}, a wheeled implement for planting seed in drills. {Drill bow}, a small bow used for the purpose of rapidly turning a drill around which the bowstring takes a turn. {Drill harrow}, a harrow used for stirring the ground between rows, or drills. {Drill plow}, [or] {Drill plough}, a sort plow for sowing grain in drills. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Drill press \Drill" press`\ . A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
drool-proof paper n. Documentation that has been obsessively {dumbed down}, to the point where only a {cretin} could bear to read it, is said to have succumbed to the `drool-proof paper syndrome' or to have been `written on drool-proof paper'. For example, this is an actual quote from Apple's LaserWriter manual: "Do not expose your LaserWriter to open fire or flame." | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
drool-proof paper down}, to the point where only a {cretin} could bear to read it, is said to have succumbed to the "drool-proof paper syndrome" or to have been "written on drool-proof paper". For example, this is an actual quote from {Apple Computer}'s LaserWriter manual: "Do not expose your LaserWriter to open fire or flame." [{Jargon File}] (1997-06-23) |