See rill in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"planetology"
],
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"rille",
"rille#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(planetology) Alternative form of rille."
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
],
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"astronomy",
"natural-sciences",
"planetology"
]
}
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"code": "an",
"lang": "Aragonese",
"lang_code": "an",
"sense": "very small brook",
"word": "lavallo"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "ručej",
"sense": "very small brook",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ручей"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "potoče",
"sense": "very small brook",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "поточе"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "very small brook",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "potůček"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "very small brook",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "stružka"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "very small brook",
"word": "noro"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "very small brook",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ruisselet"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "very small brook",
"word": "ér"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "very small brook",
"word": "csermely"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"lang_code": "ga",
"sense": "very small brook",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sruthán"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"lang_code": "ga",
"sense": "very small brook",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sruthlán"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"lang_code": "ga",
"sense": "very small brook",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "silteán"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "ručejók",
"sense": "very small brook",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ручеёк"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"lang_code": "sh",
"sense": "very small brook",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "по̀точић"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"lang_code": "sh",
"sense": "very small brook",
"tags": [
"Latin",
"masculine"
],
"word": "pòtočić"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "very small brook",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "arroyito"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "very small brook",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "rännil"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"lang_code": "uk",
"roman": "strumóčok",
"sense": "very small brook",
"word": "струмо́чок"
}
],
"word": "rill"
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"ref": "1862, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Il Mystico, 81-86:",
"text": "And fainter, finer, trickle far\nTo where the listening uplands are;\nTo pause—then from his gurgling bill\nLet the warbled sweetness rill,\nAnd down the welkin, gushing free,\nHark the molten melody;",
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"ref": "1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 158:",
"text": "Alladad Khan was panting hard, soaked in sweat, and his rolled-up sleeve was all blood, blood rilling down his arm.",
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[
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[
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "to trickle like a small stream",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "crčet"
}
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"word": "rill"
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"Real."
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"(slang, African-American Vernacular) Real."
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