prill

• IPA^(key): /pɹɪl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪl

A variant of purl, 17th century.

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

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

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

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.

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

• pelletize

• prilling
• prill sulfur

prill (plural prills)

1. The brill, a kind of flatfish.

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.

• pri — abbreviation

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

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prill m (definite prilli)

1. April