prill

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English

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Etymology 1

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A variant of purl, 17th century.

Verb

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prill (third-person singular simple present prills, present participle prilling, simple past and past participle prilled)

  1. to flow, spurt
    • 1598, John Stow, A Survey of London:
      the Thames, prillingfrom her naked breast

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prill (plural prills)

  1. a rill, a small stream
    • 1603, John Davies, Microcosmos:
      Each silver Prill gliding on golden Sand
  2. (obsolete) a spinning top

Etymology 2

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Unknown. OED mentions Cornish pryl (sheep-droppings) as a likely loan from English.

Noun

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prill (plural prills)

  1. a pellet, a granule, a small bead
    • 2000, R. R. Fullwood, Probabilistic Safety Assessment in the Chemical and Nuclear Industries, page 275:
      Prills are free-flowing pellets developed for fertilizer as a coarse product with little setting tendency that can be spread easily and smoothly.
    • 2007, Stan A. David, Trends in Welding Research: Proceedings of the 7Th International, page 661:
      The resulting solution is evaporated and converted into prills, i.e. dense flakes or grains, of solid ammonium nitrate.
  2. rich copper ore remaining after removal of low-grade material; a droplet of copper suspended in molten slag
  3. (mining) A nugget of virgin metal.
  4. The button of metal from an assay.
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Verb

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prill (third-person singular simple present prills, present participle prilling, simple past and past participle prilled)

  1. to produce pellets by forming a molten substance into droplets which solidify while falling
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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prill (plural prills)

  1. The brill, a kind of flatfish.

Etymology 4

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prill (third-person singular simple present prills, present participle prilling, simple past and past participle prilled)

  1. (intransitive, UK, dialect) To grow sour.
  2. (intransitive, UK, dialect) To become tipsy.

Albanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from Latin Aprīlis. Compare popular Romanian prier (April), Aromanian aprir, prilj.

Noun

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prill m (definite prilli)

  1. April

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