Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise.
Customary or constant use; state of being used.
Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness.
Actual performance; application of knowledge; - opposed to theory.
Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music.
Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice.
Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; - usually in a bad sense.
A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming.
To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine.
To exercise one’s self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.
To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
To make use of; to employ.
To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.
To learn by practice; to form a habit.
To try artifices or stratagems.
To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law.
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 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 practice an exercise or exercises; to train one’s self.
To trickle.
To sow in drills.
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.
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 large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophæus).
Same as Drilling.
