brill

noun, plural brills, (especially collectively) brill.

1. a European flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus, closely related to the turbot.

noun

1. A(braham) A(rden),1874–1948, U.S. psychoanalyst and author, born in Austria.

noun

1. William StewartBrill, 1852–1922, U.S. surgeon and educator.

noun plural brill or brills

1. a European food fish, Scophthalmus rhombus, a flatfish similar to the turbot but lacking tubercles on the body: family Bothidae

adjective

1. British slang excellent or wonderful

1. American surgeon who developed the use of cocaine in anesthesiology and proposed the use of rubber gloves during surgery.

1. American surgeon who discovered the technique of local anesthesia by injecting cocaine into specific nerves in 1885. He administered what is believed to be the first blood transfusion in the United States in 1881. Halsted also developed new surgical techniques for treating cancers and other abnormalities and introduced the use of rubber gloves during surgery.