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   Darryl Francis Zanuck
         n 1: United States filmmaker whose works include the first full-
               length feature film with sound sequences (1902-1979) [syn:
               {Zanuck}, {Darryl Zanuck}, {Darryl Francis Zanuck}]

English Dictionary: drool over by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drill bit
n
  1. a bit used in drilling for oil [syn: drilling bit, {drill bit}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drill press
n
  1. a machine tool with a separate, upright stand; an electric drill is pressed into the work automatically or with a hand lever
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drool over
v
  1. envy without restraint
    Synonym(s): drool over, slobber over
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
  
      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 Computer}'s
      LaserWriter manual: "Do not expose your LaserWriter to open
      fire or flame."
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1997-06-23)
  
  
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