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* DKILL. 466 DRINKING USAGES. were based originally on the Prussian system of Frederick the Ciroat, anil have been adapted sinee to such |);TTtioiilar need* of the nations as have been dictated by national evolution and the im- proved inventions of modern seientifie warfare. t>ee T.crics, Military; M.^nu.l of Abms. In the United States Navy the drills are very numerous. In addition to the tluot or squadron drills, which comprise fleet tactics, battle tac- tics, and numerous special exercises, the drill of crews of ships comprise: clearing ship for ac- tion; general (juarters (drill at stations for battle); fire quarters and fire drill; collision drill; battery drill, including drill at the heavy guns and secondary battery and supply of am- munition, instruction at the guns, etc.: torpedo drill and instruction; target practice (q.v.), with all calibres of guns, with full-calibre am- munition, sub-calibre anuuunition. record prac- tice, sea practice, small arm practice, aiming drill, etc.; field-artillery drill with three-inch field guns: infantry drill, including manual of arms and tactics, and exercise as a landing party or body of infantry making a landing and then operating on shore; boat drills, exercise with oars, with sails and tactical drill; also many other special drills as coaling-ship drill, 'man overboard,' etc. In the older ship there are also sail drills, spar drills, etc. Sec Gun- nery: T.CTICS. X.^VAL. DRILL. Any of several small gastropods which bore through the shells of other moUusks and suck out their juices, such as species of Natica. Purpura. Anachis, Astyris, Tritia. Ilya- nassa. and others. The most numerous in the waters ofT the east coast of the United States, and most troub- lesome, is Uro- sal|)inx cinerea, which is exceed- ingly destruc- tive of oysters on cultivated beds. It is this, says Ingersoll, which is the common 'drill' of the oyster- beds; and it is its eggs, laid in small vase-shaped capsules, which are often found in groups attached to the under surface of stones. The natural home of the drill is the tide-pools and weedy borders of rocky shal- lows, where barnacles, hydroids. anemones, rock-loving limpets, and other associated forms that find shelter among the alga? afford it abundant food. Thoiigh this is precisely where the mussels grow till the rocks are almost black with them, it is said that they are never at- tacked by the drills. The increase of these mol- lusks when they colonize upon an oyster-bed is very rapid, and the damage serious; but it is very difficult to combat them, and perhaps im- possible to get rid of them. Consult : Goode. Fish- rrii I iithi.it rir.1. i.. p. fitlO (Washington. 1S84) ; Ingersoll. Oi/sler Ivdustry of the United States (Washington. 1882). DRILL (from mnndrHl, baboon, probably a West Indian word: divided by popular etymol- ogy into ninii + drill). . West African babofin (Ci/norephahis hucophau.i). siuiilar to the man- A DRILL. Shell and Egg-capsules (a) of I'rosal- p'mx ciDerea. drill (q.v.), but rather smaller, and distinguished by the absence of any bright color on the face. The general color of the fur is brown, having a greenish tinge in some liglits, rather paler on the under parts and whitish on the tufted fore- head. The female is rather smaller and |ialer than the male: the naked parts of the face are ivory black, and not ribbed. Almost nothing is known of this baboon in nature, but in captivity it behaves much as do its cousins. See B. no:t. and Plate of Babooxs. DRILL (abbreviation of drilling, Gcr. Dril- lich, OHG. drilich, ticking, from Lat. fn7cx, three- threaded, from trcn, three + licium, thread: as- sociated by ])opular etymology with Ger. drci, three + termination -1/117). A fine twilled linen fabric of a satiny finish. DKILL REGULATIONS. Olficial works pre- scribing for the units of organization the method of training and instruction, their formations. mana?uvres, and ceremonies, and in a limited sense their battle tactics. The foDus in vhich the units of organization learn their duties and perform them, at rest and in motion, are em- bodied in the drill regulations i)rescribcd by the various nations. They are, from their nature, next to organization, the foundation for the tactics of an army. Drill rcgxiUitions are undergoing constant change, due to improvements in firearms and the experiences of the most recent wars, as well as the improvements in other fields of science. Those for the various branches of the line — cav- alry, infantry, artillery — are comparatively stable, although even these are changed almost every decade. Those for heavy artillery of all kinds must change with every alteration or im- provement in the piece, its carriage, or the emplacement accessories. See Army' Obcaxiza- TioN: and Tactics, Military. DRI'MYS. Sec Winter's Bark. DRINKER MOTH (so called from its long jiroboscis). An Knglish foliage-destroying moth {Odoncslis potatoria), closely allied to the egger. DRINKING USAGES. As religious ol)serv- ancients, both .Tews and pagans. To mark the spot where he communed with God, .Jacob set up a pillar of stone and 'poured a drinkofTcring thereon' (Gen. xxxv. IH. and women are said to have poured out drink-offerings imto other gods (.TeT. vii. 18). On occasions of solemn prayers and before their eating and drinking, the Greeks and Romans poured from the cup to the ground a small quantity of the liquitoin comes from antiquity. Homer's Odysseus, when about to leave the Phie- acians, rises from the couch and places the drinking-bowl in the hands of Aleinous's wife with the words. "I drink to you ; be happy." So, too. with the early Romans, the drinking of healths was a common custom, simply observed with a homely fornuila. Plato and Xenophon have described the famous .Vf/ni/xjsid or drinking parties of (he Greeks, which under the name mm- nii.<tsnlio came into vogue in Rome under the Empire. These followed the feast and were en- liveneil liv panics, riddles, and flic inu-ic of the
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