| • | To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal. |
| • | To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline. |
| • | To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. |
| • | To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water. |
| • | To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on. |
| • | To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. |
| • | To trickle. |
| • | To sow in drills. |
| • | A small trickling stream; a rill. |
| • | An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. |
| • | A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. |
| • | A row of seed sown in a furrow. |
| • | A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus). |
| • | Same as Drilling. |
