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noun

Rill n.

A very small brook; a streamlet.

(Astron.) See Rille.

verb

Rill v. i. To run a small stream. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Rill'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rill" Quotes from Famous Books

... speaks and seems to trickle forth a rill of light within my darkness: it is a voice that has never yet deceived me. It is the king you ...

— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... gladly flit away, Yield to the sun's more genial, mighty ray; The white waves kiss the murmuring rill— But thy deep silence is ...

— Poems • Mary Baker Eddy

... thrown a stone into one tiny mountain stream that cut a silver path toward the setting sun, and another, a hundred yards away, that flowed gently toward the rising sun. And he knew—for Bill Dancing had told him—that the one rill emptied at last into the Pacific Ocean, and the other into the Atlantic Ocean. Alongside these tiny streams he could plainly trace the overland trail of the emigrant wagons, and, cutting in straighter lines, ...

— The Mountain Divide • Frank H. Spearman

... a glass of wine, diluted with water brought by the guide from a neighboring rill,—glacier water being used only as a last resource,—were delectable after a steady two hours' walk. The early morning meal of coffee and a roll had lost some of its flavor when consumed apparently in the middle of the ...

— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy

... to worry her to-day, when the sun shone and the wind blew and the ferns, washed by the rill running through the culvert under the road, gave forth a delicious moist odour reminding her of the flower store where her sister Lise had once been employed. But at length she arose, and after an hour ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

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