Pilgarlic Pil·gar"lic noun [ Etymol. uncertain.]
One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.
Pilgrim Pil"grim noun [ Middle English
pilgrim ,
pelgrim ,
pilegrim ,
pelegrim ; confer Dutch
pelgrim , Old High German
piligrīm , German
pilger , French
pèlerin , Italian
pellegrino ; all from Latin
peregrinus a foreigner, from
pereger abroad;
per through +
ager land, field. See
Per- , and
Acre , and confer
Pelerine ,
Peregrine .]
1. A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger. Strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Hebrew xi. 13. 2. One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims . See Palmer . P. Plowman.
Pilgrim Pil"grim adjective Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages. "With
pilgrim steps."
Milton. Pilgrim fathers ,
a name popularly given to the one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in 1620. They were separatists from the Church of England, and most of them had sojourned in Holland.
Pilgrim Pil"grim intransitive verb To journey; to wander; to ramble. [ R.]
Grew. Carlyle.
Pilgrimage Pil"grim·age noun [ Middle English
pilgrimage ,
pelgrinage ; confer French
pèlerinage .]
1. The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life. Shak. The days of the years of my pilgrimage .
Gen. xlvii. 9. 2. A tedious and wearisome time. In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage .
Shak. Syn. -- Journey; tour; excursion. See
Journey .
Pilgrimize Pil"grim·ize intransitive verb To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage. [ Obsolete]
B. Jonson.
Pilidium Pi·lid"i·um noun ;
plural Pildia . [ New Latin , from Greek ..., dim. of ... a cap.]
(Zoology) The free-swimming, hat-shaped larva of certain nemertean worms. It has no resemblance to its parent, and the young worm develops in its interior.
Pilifera Pi·lif"e·ra noun plural [ New Latin See
Piliferous .]
(Zoology) Same as Mammalia .
Piliferous Pi·lif"er·ous adjective [ Latin
pilus hair +
-ferous : confer French
pilifère .]
1. Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair. 2. Beset with hairs.
Piliform Pil"i·form adjective [ Latin
pilus hair +
-form .]
(Botany) Resembling hairs or down.
Piligerous Pi·lig"er·ous adjective [ Latin
pilus hair +
-gerous : confer French
piligère .]
Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.
Piling Pil"ing noun [ See
Pile a heap.]
1. The act of heaping up. 2. (Iron Manuf.) The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.
Piling Pil"ing noun [ See
Pile a stake.]
A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge. Pug piling ,
sheet piles connected together at the edges by dovetailed tongues and grooves. --
Sheet piling ,
a series of piles made of planks or half logs driven edge to edge, -- used to form the walls of cofferdams, etc.
Pill Pill noun [ Confer
Peel skin, or
Pillion .]
The peel or skin. [ Obsolete] "Some be covered over with crusts, or hard
pills , as the locusts."
Holland.
Pill Pill intransitive verb To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
Pill Pill transitive verb [ Confer Latin
pilare to deprive of hair, and English
pill , noun (above).]
1. To deprive of hair; to make bald. [ Obsolete]
2. To peel; to make by removing the skin. [ Jacob] pilled white streaks . . . in the rods.
Gen. xxx. 37.
Pill Pill transitive verb & i. [
imperfect & past participle Pilled ;
present participle & verbal noun Pilling .] [ French
piller , Latin
pilare ; confer Italian
pigliare to take. Confer
Peel to plunder.]
To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel , to plunder. [ Obsolete]
Spenser. Pillers and robbers were come in to the field to pill and to rob.
Sir T. Malroy.
Pill Pill noun [ French
pilute , Latin
pilula a pill, little ball, dim. of Latin
pila a ball. Confer
Piles .]
1. A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole. 2. Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured. Udall. Pill beetle (Zoology) ,
any small beetle of the genus Byrrhus , having a rounded body, with the head concealed beneath the thorax. --
Pill bug (Zoology) ,
any terrestrial isopod of the genus Armadillo , having the habit of rolling itself into a ball when disturbed. Called also pill wood louse .
Pill-willet Pill"-wil`let noun [ So named from its note.]
(Zoology) The willet.
Pillage Pil"lage noun [ French, from
piller to plunder. See
Pill to plunder.]
1. The act of pillaging; robbery. Shak. 2. That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty. Which pillage they with merry march bring home.
Shak. Syn. -- Plunder; rapine; spoil; depredation. --
Pillage ,
Plunder .
Pillage refers particularly to the act of stripping the sufferers of their goods, while
plunder refers to the removal of the things thus taken; but the words are freely interchanged.
Pillage Pil"lage intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Pillaged ;
present participle & verbal noun Pillaging .]
To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy. Mummius . . . took, pillaged , and burnt their city.
Arbuthnot.
Pillage Pil"lage intransitive verb To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. They were suffered to pillage wherever they went.
Macaulay.
Pillager Pil"la·ger noun One who pillages. Pope.
Pillar Pil"lar noun [ Middle English
piler French
pilier , Late Latin
pilare ,
pilarium ,
pilarius , from Latin
pila a pillar. See
Pile a heap.]
1. The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament. Jacob set a pillar upon her grave.
Gen. xxxv. 20. The place . . . vast and proud,
Supported by a hundred pillars stood.
Dryden. 2. Figuratively, that which resembles such a pillar in appearance, character, or office; a supporter or mainstay; as, the Pillars of Hercules; a pillar of the state. "You are a well-deserving
pillar ."
Shak. By day a cloud, by night a pillar of fire.
Milton. 3. (R. C. Ch.) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church. [ Obsolete]
Skelton. 4. (Man.) The center of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns. From pillar to post ,
hither and thither; to and fro; from one place or predicament to another; backward and forward. [ Colloq.] --
Pillar saint .
See Stylite . --
Pillars of the fauces .
See Fauces , 1.
Pillar Pil"lar adjective (Machinery) Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs; as, a pillar drill.
Pillar-block Pil"lar-block` noun See under Pillow .
Pillared Pil"lared adjective Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars. "The
pillared arches."
Sir W. Scott. "
Pillared flame."
Thomson.
Pillaret Pil"lar·et noun A little pillar. [ R.]
Fuller.
Pillarist Pil"lar·ist noun (Eccl. Hist.) See Stylite .
Pillau Pil·lau" noun [ Persian & Turk.
pilau .]
An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, fat, or butter. [ Written also
pilau .]
Pilled Pilled adjective [ See 3rd
Pill .]
Stripped of hair; scant of hair; bald. [ Obsolete] "
Pilled beard."
Chaucer.
Pilled-garlic Pilled"-gar"lic noun See Pilgarlic .
Piller Pill"er noun One who pills or plunders. [ Obsolete]
Pillery Pill"er·y noun ;
plural Pilleries Plunder; pillage. [ Obsolete]
Daniel.
Pillion Pil"lion noun [ Ir.
pillin ,
pilliun (akin to Gael.
pillean ,
pillin ), from Ir. & Gael.
pill ,
peall , a skin or hide, probably from Latin
pellis . See
Pell ,
noun ,
Fell skin.]
A panel or cushion saddle; the under pad or cushion of saddle; esp., a pad or cushion put on behind a man's saddle, on which a woman may ride. His [ a soldier's] shank pillion without stirrups.
Spenser.
Pillorize Pil"lo·rize transitive verb To set in, or punish with, the pillory; to pillory. [ R.]
Pillory Pil"lo·ry noun ;
plural Pillories . [ French
pilori ; confer Pr.
espitlori , Late Latin
piloricum ,
pilloricum ,
pellericum ,
pellorium ,
pilorium ,
spilorium ; perhaps from a derivative of Latin
speculari to look around, observe. Confer
Speculate .]
A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it. Shak.
Pillory Pil"lo·ry transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Pilloried ;
present participle & verbal noun Pillorying .] [ Confer French
pilorier .]
1. To set in, or punish with, the pillory. "Hungering for Puritans to
pillory ."
Macaulay. 2. Figuratively, to expose to public scorn. Gladstone.
Pillow Pil"low noun [ Middle English
pilwe , Anglo-Saxon
pyle , from Latin
pilvinus .]
1. Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material. [ Resty sloth] finds the down pillow hard.
Shak. 2. (Machinery) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. [ R.]
3. (Nautical) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit. 4. A kind of plain, coarse fustian. Lace pillow ,
a cushion used in making hand- wrought lace. --
Pillow bier [ Middle English
pilwebere ; confer LG.
büre a pillowcase],
a pillowcase; pillow slip. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer. --
Pillow block (Machinery) ,
a block, or standard, for supporting a journal, as of a shaft. It is usually bolted to the frame or foundation of a machine, and is often furnished with journal boxes, and a movable cover, or cap, for tightening the bearings by means of bolts; -- called also pillar block , or plumber block . --
Pillow lace ,
handmade lace wrought with bobbins upon a lace pillow. --
Pillow of a plow ,
a crosspiece of wood which serves to raise or lower the beam. --
Pillow sham ,
an ornamental covering laid over a pillow when not in use. --
Pillow slip ,
a pillowcase.
Pillow Pil"low transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Pillowed ;
present participle & verbal noun Pillowing .]
To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support; as, to pillow the head. Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.
Milton.
Pillow lace Pil"low lace Lace made by hand with bobbins on a pillow.
Pillowcase Pil"low·case` noun A removable case or covering for a pillow, usually of white linen or cotton cloth.
Pillowed Pil"lowed adjective Provided with a pillow or pillows; having the head resting on, or as on, a pillow. Pillowed on buckler cold and hard.
Sir W. Scott.
Pillowy Pil"low·y adjective Like a pillow. Keats.
Pillworm Pill"worm` noun (Zoology) Any myriapod of the genus Iulus and allied genera which rolls up spirally; a galleyworm. See Illust. under Myriapod .
Pillwort Pill"wort` noun (Botany) Any plant of the genus Pilularia ; minute aquatic cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; -- sometimes called peppergrass .
Pilocarpine Pi`lo·car"pine noun [ From New Latin
Pilocarpus pennatifolius jaborandi; Latin
pilus hair + Greek
karpo`s fruit: confer French
pilocarpine .]
(Chemistry) An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi ( Pilocarpus pennatifolius ) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.
Pilon Pi·lon" noun [ Spanish , sugar loaf.] [ Spanish Amer.]
1. A conical loaf of sugar. 2. A gratuity given by tradesmen to customers settling their accounts. [ Southern U. S.]
Pilonce Pi·lon"ce noun [ Amer. Spanish See
Piloncillo .]
Same as Pilon . [ Texas]
Piloncillo Pi`lon·cil"lo noun [ Amer. Spanish , dim. of
pilon .]
Same as Pilon . [ Texas]
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