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.

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