Pickardil – Pippin

Pickardil

PICK'ARDIL , noun [probably from the root of pike, peak.]

A high collar or a kind of ruff.

Pickax

PICK'AX, noun [pick and ax.] An ax with a sharp point at tone end and a broad blade at the other.

Pickback

PICK'BACK, adjective On the back.

Picked

PICK'ED, participle passive Plucked off by the fingers, teeth or claws; cleaned by picking; opened by an instrument; selected.

PICK'ED

Pickedness

PICK'EDNESS, noun State of being pointed at the end; sharpness.

1. Foppery; spruceness.

Pickeer

PICKEE'R, verb transitive

1. To pillage; to pirate.

2. To skirmish, as soldiers on the outposts of an army, or in pillaging parties.

Picker

PICK'ER, noun One that picks or culls.

1. A pickax or instrument for picking or separating.

2. One that excites a quarrel between himself and another.

Pickerel

PICK'EREL, noun [from pike.] A small pike, a fish of the genus Esox.

Pickerel-Weed

PICK'EREL-WEED, noun A plant supposed to breed pickerels.

Picket

PICK'ET, noun A stake sharpened or pointed; used in fortification and encampments.

1. A narrow board pointed; used in making fence.

2. A guard posted in front of an army to give notice of the approach of the enemy.

3. A game at cards. [See Piquet.]

4. A punishment with consists in making the offender stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

PICK'ET, verb transitive To fortify with pointed stakes.

1. To inclose or fence with narrow pointed boards.

2. To fasten to a picket

Picketed

PICK'ETED, participle passive Fortified or inclosed with pickets.

Picketing

PICK'ETING, participle present tense Inclosing or fortifying with pickets.

Picking

PICK'ING, participle present tense Pulling off with the fingers or teeth; selecting.

PICK'ING, noun The act of plucking; selection; gathering; gleaning.

Pickle

PICK'LE, noun Brine; a solution of salt and water, sometimes impregnated with spices, in which flesh, fish or other substance is preserved; as pickle for beef; pickle for capers or for cucumbers; pickle for herring.

1. A thing preserved in pickle

2. A state of condition of difficulty or disorder; a word used in ridicule or contempt. You are in a fine pickle

How cam'st thou in this pickle?

3. A parcel of land inclosed with a hedge. [Local.]

PICK'LE, verb transitive To preserve in brine or pickle; as, to pickle herring.

1. To season in pickle

2. To imbue highly with any thing bad; as a pickled rogue.

Pickle-Herring

PICKLE-HER'RING, noun A merry Andrew; a zany; a buffoon.

Picklock

PICK'LOCK, noun [pick and lock.] An instrument for opening locks without the key.

1. A person who picks locks.

Picknick

PICK'NICK, noun An assembly where each person contributes to the entertainment.

Pickpocket

PICK'POCKET, noun One who steals from the pocket of another.

Pickpurse

PICK'PURSE, noun One that steals from the purse of another.

Pickthank

PICK'THANK, noun An officious fellow who does what he is not desired to do, for the sake of gaining favor; a whispering parasite.

Picktooth

PICK'TOOTH, noun An instrument for picking or cleaning the teeth. [But toothpick is more generally used.]

Pico

PICO, noun A peak; the pointed head of a mountain.

Picrolite

PIC'ROLITE, noun A mineral composed chiefly of the carbonate of magnesia, of a green color. [See Pikrolite.]

Picromel

PIC'ROMEL, noun [Gr. bitter.] The characteristic principle of bile.

Picrotoxin

PICROTOX'IN, noun [Gr. bitter, and Latin toxicum.] The bitter and poisonous principle of the Cocculus Indicus.

Pict

PICT, noun [Latin pictus, pingo.] A person whose body is painted.

Pictorial

PICTO'RIAL, adjective [Latin pictor, a painter.] Pertaining to a painter; produced by a painter.

Pictural

PIC'TURAL, noun A representation. [Not in use.]

Picture

PIC'TURE, noun [Latin pictura, from pingo, to paint.]

1. A painting exhibiting the resemblance of any thing; a likeness drawn in colors.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects.

2. The words of painters; painting.

Quintilian, when he saw any well expressed image of grief, either in picture or sculpture, would usually weep.

3. Any resemblance or representation, either to the eye or to the understanding. Thus we say, a child is the picture of his father; the poet has drawn an exquisite picture of grief.

PIC'TURE, verb transitive To paint a resemblance.

Love is like a painter, who, in drawing the picture of a friend having a blemish in one eye, would picture only the other side of the face.

1. To represent; to form or present an ideal likeness.

I do picture it in my mind.

Pictured

PIC'TURED, participle passive Painted in resemblance; drawn in colors; represented.

Picturesk

PICTURESK', adjective [Latin pictura, or pictor. In English, this would be picturish.] Expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; striking the mind with great power or pleasure in representing objects of vision, and in painting to the imagination any circumstance or event as clearly as if delineated in a picture.

Pictureskly

PICTURESK'LY , adverb In a picturesque manner.

Pictureskness

PICTURESK'NESS, noun The state of being picturesque.

Picturesque

PICTURESQUE

PICTURESQUELY

PICTURESQUENESS

PID'DLE, verb intransitive [This is a different spelling of peddle, or from the same source.]

1. To deal in trifles; to spend time in trifling objects; to attend to trivial concerns or the small parts rather than to the main.

2. To pick at table; to eat squeamishly or without appetite.

Picturesquely

PICTURESQUELY

Picturesqueness

PICTURESQUENESS

Piddle

PID'DLE, v.i. [This is a different spelling of peddle, or from the same source.] 1. To deal in trifles; to spend time in trifling objects; to attend to trivial concerns or the small parts rather than to the main.2. To pick at table; to eat squeamishly or without appetite.

Piddler

PID'DLER, noun One who busies himself about little things.

1. One that eats squeamishly or without appetite.

Pie

PIE, noun [Gr. thick; or from mixing.]

An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it, as apple, minced meat, etc.

PIE, noun [Latin pica.] The magpie, a party-colored bird of the genus Corvus. It is sometimes written pye.

1. The old popish service book, supposed to be so called from the different color of the text and rubric, or from litera picata, a large black letter, used at the beginning of each order.

2. Printers' types mixed or unsorted.

Cork and pie an adjuration by the pie or service book, and by the sacred name of the Deity corrupted.

Piebald

PI'EBALD, adjective Of various colors; diversified in color; as a piebald horse.

Piece

PIECE, noun [Heb. to cut off or clip.]

1. A fragment or part of any thing separated from the whole, in any manner, by cutting, splitting, breaking or tearing; as, to cut in pieces, break in pieces, tear in pieces, pull in pieces, etc.; a piece of a rock; a piece of paper.

2. A part of any thing, though not separated, or separated only in idea; not the whole; a portion; as a piece of excellent knowledge.

3. A distinct part or quantity; a part considered by itself, or separated from the rest only by a boundary or divisional line; as a piece of land in the meadow or on the mountain.

4. A separate part; a thing or portion distinct from others of a like kind; as a piece of timber; a piece of cloth; a piece of paper hangings.

5. A composition, essay or writing of no great length; as a piece of poetry or prose; a piece of music.

6. A separate performance; a distinct portion of labor; as a piece of work.

7. A picture or painting.

If unnatural, the finest colors are but daubing, and the piece is a beautiful monster at the best.

8. A coin; as a piece of eight.

9. A gun or single part of ordnance. We apply the word to a cannon, a mortar, or a musket. Large guns are called battering pieces; smaller guns are called field pieces.

10. In heraldry, an ordinary or charge. The fess, the bend, the pale, the bar, the cross, the saltier, the chevron are called honorable pieces.

11. In ridicule or contempt. A piece of a lawyer is a smatterer.

12. A castle; a building. [Not in use.]

A-piece, to each; as, he paid the men a dollar a-piece.

Of a piece like; of the same sort, as if taken from the same whole. They seemed all of a piece Sometimes followed by with.

The poet must be of a piece with the spectators to gain reputation.

PIECE, verb transitive To enlarge or mend by the addition of a piece; to patch; as, to piece a garment; to piece the time.

To piece out, to extend or enlarge by addition of a piece or pieces.

PIECE, verb intransitive To unite by coalescence of parts; to be compacted, as parts into a whole.

Pieced

PIE'CED, participle passive Mended or enlarged by a piece or pieces.

Pieceless

PIE'CELESS, adjective Not made of pieces; consisting of an entire thing.

Piecemeal

PIE'CEMEAL, adverb

1. In pieces; in fragments.

On which it piecemeal broke.

2. By pieces; by little and little in succession.

Piecemeal they win this acre first, then that.

PIE'CEMEAL, adjective Single; separate; made of parts or pieces.

Piecemealed

PIE'CEMEALED, adjective Divided into small pieces.

Piecer

PIE'CER, noun One that pieces; a patcher.

Pied

PI'ED, adjective [allied probably to pie, in piebald, and a contracted word, perhaps from the root of Latin pictus.]

Variegated with spots of different colors; spotted. We now apply the word chiefly or wholly to animals which are marked with large spots of different colors. If the spots are small, we use speckled. This distinction was not formerly observed, and in some cases, pied is elegantly used to express a diversity of colors in small spots.

Meadows trim with daisies pied

Piedness

PI'EDNESS, noun Diversity of colors in spots.

Pieled

PIE'LED, adjective [See Peel.] Bald; bare.

Piepoudre

PIE'POUDRE, noun An ancient court of record in England, incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owns or has the toll, is the judge. It had jurisdiction of all causes arising in the fair or market.

Pier

PIER, noun [Latin petra.]

1. A mass of solid stone work for supporting an arch or the timbers of a bridge or other building.

2. A mass of stone work or a mole projecting into the sea, for breaking the force of the waves and making a safe harbor.

Pierce

PIERCE, verb transitive pers.

1. To thrust into with a pointed instrument; as, to pierce the body with a sword or spear; to pierce the side with a thorn.

2. To penetrate; to enter; to force a way into; as, a column of troops pierced the main body of the enemy; a shot pierced the ship.

3. To penetrate the heart deeply; to touch the passions; to excite or affect the passions. 1 Timothy 6:10.

4. To dive or penetrate into, as a secret or purpose.

PIERCE, verb intransitive pers. To enter; as a pointed instrument.

1. To penetrate; to force a way into or through any thing. The shot pierced through the side of the ship.

Her tears will pierce into a marble heart.

2. To enter; to dive or penetrate, as into a secret.

She would not pierce further into his meaning than himself should declare.

3. To affect deeply.

Pierceable

PIERCEABLE, adjective pers'able. That may be pierced.

Pierced

PIERCED, participle passive pers'ed. Penetrated; entered by force; transfixed.

Piercer

PIERCER, noun pers'er. An instrument that pierces, penetrates or bores.

1. One that pierces or perforates.

Piercing

PIERCING, participle present tense pers'ing. Penetrating; entering, as a pointed instrument; making a way by force into another body.

1. Affecting deeply; as eloquence piercing the heart.

2. adjective Affecting; cutting; keen.

Piercingly

PIERCINGLY, adverb pers'ingly. With penetrating force or effect; sharply.

Piercingness

PIERCINGNESS, noun pers'ingness. The power of piercing or penetrating; sharpness; keenness.

Pietism

PI'ETISM, noun [See Piety.] Extremely strict devotion, or affectation of piety.

Pietist

PI'ETIST, noun One of a sect professing great strictness and purity of life, despising learning, school theology and ecclesiastical polity, as also forms and ceremonies in religion, and giving themselves up to mystic theology. This sect sprung up among the protestants of Germany, in the latter part of the seventeenth century.

Piety

PI'ETY, noun [Latin pietas, from pius, or its root, probably a contracted word.]

1. piety in principle, is a compound of veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being and love of his character, or veneration accompanied with love; and piety in practice, is

the exercise of these affections in obedience to his will and devotion to his service.

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man.

2. Reverence of parents or friends, accompanied with affection and devotion to their honor and happiness.

Piezometer

PIEZOM'ETER, noun [Gr. to press, and measure.] An instrument for ascertaining the compressibility of water, and the degree of such compressibility under any given weight.

Pig

PIG, noun

1. The young of swine, male or female.

2. An oblong mass of unforged iron, lead or other metal. A pig of lead is the eighth of a fother, or 250 pounds.

PIG, verb transitive or i. To bring forth pigs.

Pigeon

PIG'EON, noun A fowl of the genus Columba, of several species, as the stock dove, the ring dove, the turtle dove, and the migratory or wild pigeon of America. The domestic pigeon breeds in a box, often attached to a building, called a dovecot or pigeon-house. The wild pigeon builds a nest on a tree in the forest.

Pigeon-Foot

PIG'EON-FOOT, noun A plant.

Pigeon-Hearted

PIG'EON-HE'ARTED, adjective Timid; easily frightened.

Pigeon-Hole

PIG'EON-HOLE, noun A little apartment or division in a case for papers.

Pigeon-Holes

PIG'EON-HOLES, noun An old English game in which balls were rolled through little cavities or arches.

Pigeon-Livered

PIG'EON-LIVERED, adjective Mild in temper; soft; gentle.

Pigeon-Pea

PIG'EON-PEA, noun A plant of the genus Cytisus.

Piggin

PIG'GIN, noun A small wooden vessel with an erect handle, used as a dipper.

Pigheaded

PIG'HEADED, adjective Having a large head; stupid.

Pight

PIGHT, participle passive pite. Pitched; fixed; determined.

PIGHT, verb transitive To pierce.

Pightel

PIGHTEL, noun A little inclosure. [Local.]

Pigmean

PIGME'AN, adjective [from pigmy.] Very small; like a pigmy; as an image of pigmean size.

Pigment

PIG'MENT, noun [Latin pigmentum, from the root of pingo, to paint.]

Paint; a preparation used by painters, dyers, etc. to impart colors to bodies.

Pigmy

PIG'MY, noun [Latin pygmoeus; Gr. the fist.] A dwarf; a person of very small stature; a name applied to a fabled nation said to have been devoured by cranes.

PIG'MY, adjective Very small in size; mean; feeble; inconsiderable.

Pignoration

PIGNORA'TION, noun [Latin pignero, to pledge.] The act of pledging or pawning.

Pignorative

PIG'NORATIVE, adjective Pledging; pawning. [Little used.]

Pignut

PIG'NUT, noun [pig and nut.] The ground nut, a plant of the genus Bunium; also, a tree and its fruit of the genus Juglans.

Pigsney

PIG'SNEY, noun A word of endearment to a girl. [Little used.]

Pigtail

PIG'TAIL, noun [pig and tail.] A cue; the hair of the head tied in the form of a pig's tail.

1. A small roll of tobacco.

Pigwidgeon

PIGWID'GEON, noun [pig and widgeon.] A fairy; a cant word for any thing very small.

Pike

PIKE, noun [This word belongs to a numerous family of words expressing something pointed, or a sharp point, or as verbs, to dart, to thrust, to prick.]

1. A military weapon consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a flat steel head pointed; called the spear. This weapon was formerly used by infantry, but its use is now limited to officers, and it is called a sponton or spontoon. Its use among soldiers is superseded by the bayonet.

2. A fork used in husbandry; but we now use fork or pitchfork.

3. Among turners, the iron sprigs used to fasten any thing to be turned.

4. In ichthyology, a fish of the genus Esox, so named from its long shape or from the form of its snout. It is a fresh water fish, living in deep water and very voracious, but very palatable food.

The pike the tyrant of the flood.

PIK'ED, adjective Ending in a point; acuminated.

Piked

PIK'ED, adjective Pointed; sharp.

Let the stake be made picked at the top.

Pikeman

PI'KEMAN, noun A soldier armed with a pike.

Pikestaff

PI'KESTAFF, noun The staff or shaft of a pike.

Pikrolite

PIK'ROLITE, noun [Gr.bitter, and a stone.] A mineral found at Taberg, in Sweden, supposed to be a variety of serpentine.

Pil-Garlick

PIL-G'ARLICK

PILAS'TER, noun A square column, sometimes insulated; but usually pilasters are set within a wall, projecting only one quarter of their diameter. Their bases, capitals and entablatures have the same parts as those of columns.

Pilaster

PILAS'TER, n. A square column, sometimes insulated; but usually pilasters are set within a wall, projecting only one quarter of their diameter. Their bases, capitals and entablatures have the same parts as those of columns.

Pilch

PILCH, noun [Latin pellis, a skin.] A furred gown or case; something lined with fur. [Not used.]

Pilchard

PIL'CHARD, noun A fish resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder; the nose is shorter and turns up; the under jaw is shorter; the back more elevated, and the belly less sharp. These fishes appear on the Cornish coast in England, about the middle of July, in immense numbers, and furnish a considerable article of commerce.

Pile

PILE, noun [Latin pila.]

1. A heap; a mass or collection of things in a roundish or elevated form; as a pile of stones; a pile of bricks; a pile of wood or timber; a pile of ruins.

2. A collection of combustibles for burning a dead body; as a funeral pile

3. A large building or mass of buildings; an edifice.

The pile o'erlook'd the town and drew the sight.

4. A heap of balls or shot laid in horizontal courses, rising into a pyramidical form.

PILE, noun [Latin palus.]

1. A large stake or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building or other superstructure. The stadthouse in Amsterdam is supported by piles.

2. One side of a coin; originally, a punch or puncheon used in stamping figures on coins, and containing the figures to be impressed. Hence the arms-side of a coin is called the pile and the head the cross, which was formerly in the place of the head. Hence cross and pile

3. In heraldry, an ordinary in form of a point inverted or a stake sharpened.

PILE, noun [Latin pilum.] The head of an arrow.

PILE, noun [Latin pilus.] Properly, a hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton and the like; hence, the nap, the fine hairy substance of the surface of cloth.

PILE, verb transitive To lay or throw into a heap; to collect many things into a mass; as, to pile wood or stones.

1. To bring into an aggregate; to accumulate; as, to pile quotations or comments.

2. To fill with something heaped.

3. To fill above the brim or top.

4. To break off the awns of threshed barley. [Local.]

Pileate

PIL'EATE

PIL'EATED, adjective [Latin pileus, a cap.] Having the form of a cap or cover for the head.

Pileated

PIL'EATED, a. [L. pileus, a cap.] Having the form of a cap or cover for the head.

Pilement

PI'LEMENT, noun An accumulation. [Not used.]

Piler

PI'LER, noun [from pile, a heap.] One who piles or forms a heap.

Piles

PILES, noun plural The hemorrhoids, a disease.

Pileworm

PI'LEWORM, noun A worm found in piles in Holland.

Pilewort

PI'LEWORT, noun A plant of the genus Ranunculus.

Pilfer

PIL'FER, verb intransitive To steal in small quantities; to practice petty theft; as a boy accustomed to pilfer

A pilfering hand.

PIL'FER, verb transitive To steal or gain by petty theft; to filch.

He would not pilfer the victory, and the defeat was easy.

Pilfered

PIL'FERED, participle passive Stolen in small parcels.

Pilferer

PIL'FERER, noun One that pilfers or practices petty theft.

Pilfering

PIL'FERING, participle passive Stealing; practicing petty thefts.

PIL'FERING, noun Petty theft.

Pilfering was so universal in all the South sea islands, that it was hardly recognized in the moral code of the natives as an offense, much less a crime.

Pilferingly

PIL'FERINGLY, adverb With petty theft; filchingly.

Pilgrim

PIL'GRIM, noun [Latin peregrinus. Gu. Latin peragro, to wander, palor.]

1. A wanderer; a traveler; particularly, one that travels to a distance from his own country to visit a holy place, or to pay his devotion to the remains of dead saints. [See Pilgrimage.]

2. In Scripture, one that has only a temporary residence on earth. Hebrews 11:13.

PIL'GRIM, verb intransitive To wander or ramble. [Not used.]

Pilgrimage

PIL'GRIMAGE, noun A long journey, particularly a journey to some place deemed sacred and venerable, in order to pay devotion to the relics of some deceased saint. Thus in the middle ages, kings, princes, bishops and others made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, in pious devotion to the Savior. Pilgrims now resort to Loretto, in Italy, to visit the chamber of the blessed virgin, and the Mohammedans make pilgrimages to Mecca, where their prophet was buried.

1. In Scripture, the journey of human life. Genesis 47:9.

2. Time irksomely spent.

Pilgrimize

PIL'GRIMIZE, verb intransitive To wander about as a pilgrim. [Not used.]

Pill

PILL, noun [Latin pila, a ball; pilula, a little ball.]

1. In pharmacy, a medicine in the form of a little ball or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.

2. Any thing nauseous.

PILL, verb transitive To rob; to plunder; to pillage, that is, to peel, to strip. [See Peel, the same word in the proper English orthography.]

PILL, verb intransitive To be peeled; to come off in flakes.

1. To rob. [See Peel.]

Pillage

PILL'AGE, noun

1. Plunder; spoil; that which is taken from another by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war.

2. The act of plundering.

3. In architecture, a square pillar behind a column to bear up the arches.

PILL'AGE, verb transitive To strip of money or goods by open violence; as, troops pillage the camp or towns of an enemy; to plunder; to spoil. It differs from stealing, as it implies open violence, and from robbery, which may be committed by one individual on another; whereas pillaging is usually the act of bands or numbers. To pillage and to rob are however sometimes used synonymously.

Pillaged

PILL'AGED, participle passive Plundered by open force.

Pillager

PILL'AGER, noun One that plunders by open violence; a plunderer.

Pillaging

PILL'AGING, participle present tense Plundering; stripping.

Pillar

PIL'LAR, noun [Latin pila, a pile, a pillar a mortar and pestle. The Latin pila denotes a heap, or things thrown, put or driven together.]

Literally, a pile or heap; hence,

1. A kind or irregular column round an insulate, but deviating from the proportions of a just column. Pillars are either too massive or too slender for regular architecture; they are not restricted to any rules, and their parts and proportions are arbitrary. A square pillar is a massive work, called also a pier or piedroit, serving to support arches. etc.

2. A supporter; that which sustains or upholds; that on which some superstructure rests. Galatians 2:9.

3. A monument raised to commemorate any person or remarkable transaction.

And Jacob set a pillar on her grave. Genesis 35:14. 2 Samuel 18:18.

4. Something resembling a pillar; as a pillar of salt. Genesis 19:26.

So a pillar of a cloud, a pillar of fire. Exodus 13:21.

5. Foundation; support. Job 9:6.

6. In ships, a square or round timber fixed perpendicularly under the middle of the beams for supporting the decks.

7. In the manege, the center of the volta, ring or manege ground, around which a horse turns. There are also pillars on the circumference or side, placed at certain distances by two and two.

Pillared

PIL'LARED, adjective Supported by pillars.

1. Having the form of a pillar.

Pilled-Garlick

PILL'ED-G'ARLICK, noun [pilled, peeled, and garlick.] One who has lost his hair by disease; a poor forsaken wretch.

Piller

PILL'ER, noun One that pills or plunders. [Not used.]

Pillery

PILL'ERY, noun Plunder; pillage; rapine. [Not in use.]

Pillion

PILLION, noun pil'yun, [Latin pilus, hair, or from stuffing. See Pillow.]

1. A cushion for a woman to ride on behind a person on horseback.

2. A pad; a pannel; a low saddle.

3. The pad of a saddle that rests on the horse's back.

Pilloried

PIL'LORIED, adjective Put in a pillory.

Pillory

PIL'LORY, noun [Latin palus, a stake, a pile.] A frame of wood erected on posts, with movable boards and holes, through which are put the head and hands of a criminal for punishment.

PIL'LORY, verb transitive To punish with the pillory

Pillow

PIL'LOW, noun [Latin pulvinar; from Latin pilus, hair, or from stuffing.]

1. A long cushion to support the head of a person when reposing on a bed; a sack or case filled with feathers, down or other soft material.

2. In a ship, the block on which the inner end of a bowsprit is supported.

The pillow of a plow, is a cross piece of wood which serves to raise or lower the beam.

PIL'LOW, verb transitive To rest or lay on for support.

Pillow-Bier

PIL'LOW-BIER

PIL'LOW-CASE, noun The case or sack of a pillow which contains the feathers. pillow-bier is the pillow-bearer.

Pillow-Case

PIL'LOW-CASE, n. The case or sack of a pillow which contains the feathers. Pillow-bier is the pillow-bearer.

Pillowed

PIL'LOWED, participle passive or adjective Supported by a pillow.

Pillowing

PIL'LOWING, participle present tense Resting or laying on a pillow.

Pilose

PILO'SE

PILOS'ITY, noun [supra.] Hairiness.

Pilosity

PILOS'ITY, n. [supra.] Hairiness.

Pilot

PI'LOT, noun

1. One who steers a ship in a dangerous navigation, or rather one whose office or occupation is to steer ships, particularly along a coast, or into and out of a harbor, bay or river, where navigation is dangerous.

2. A guide; a director of the course of another person. [In colloquial use.]

PI'LOT, verb transitive To direct the course of a ship in any place where navigation is dangerous.

Pilot-Fish

PI'LOT-FISH, noun A fish, a species of Gasterosteus, called also rudder-fish, of an oblong shape; so named because it often accompanies ships.

Pilotage

PI'LOTAGE, noun The compensation made or allowed to one who directs the course of a ship.

1. The pilot's skill or knowledge of coasts, rocks, bars and channels. [Not now used.]

Piloting

PI'LOTING, participle present tense Steering; as a ship in dangerous navigation.

PI'LOTING, noun The act of steering a ship.

Pilotism

PI'LOTISM

PI'LOTRY, noun Pilotage; skill in piloting. [Not used.]

PI'LOUS, adjective [Latin pilosus. See Pilose.] Hairy; abounding with hair.

1. Consisting of hair.

Pilotry

PI'LOTRY, n. Pilotage; skill in piloting. [Not used.]

Pilous

PI'LOUS, adjective [Latin pilosus, from pilus, hair.] Hairy. A pilose leaf, in botany, is one covered with long distinct hairs. A pilose receptacle has hairs between the florets.

Pilser

PIL'SER, noun The moth or fly that runs into a flame.

Pimelite

PIM'ELITE, noun [Gr. fat, and stone.] A terrene substance of an apple green color, fat and unctuous to the touch, tender and not fusible by the blowpipe. It is supposed to be colored by nickel. It is a variety of steatite.

Piment

PI'MENT, noun Wine with a mixture of spice or honey.

Pimento

PIMEN'TO, noun Jamaica pepper, popularly called allspice. The tree producing this spice is of the genus Myrtus, and grows spontaneously in Jamaica in great abundance.

Pimp

PIMP, noun A man who provides gratifications for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander.

PIMP, verb intransitive To pander; to procure lewd women for the gratification of others.

Pimpernel

PIM'PERNEL

PIM'PILLO, noun A plant of the genus Cactus.

Pimpillo

PIM'PILLO, n. A plant of the genus Cactus.

Pimpinel

PIM'PINEL, noun [Latin pimpinella.] The name of several plants of different genera. The scarlet pimpernel is of the genus Anagallis, the water pimpernel of the genus Veronica, and the yellow pimpernel of the genus Lysimachia.

Pimpinella

PIMPINEL'LA, noun A genus of plants, including the burnet saxifrage and the anise.

Pimping

PIMP'ING, participle present tense Pandering; procuring lewd women for others.

PIMP'ING, adjective Little; petty.

Pimple

PIM'PLE, noun A small pustule on the face or other part of the body, usually a red pustule.

Pimpled

PIM'PLED, adjective Having red pustules on the skin; full of pimples.

Pimplike

PIMP'LIKE, adjective Like a pimp; vile; infamous; mean.

Pin

PIN, noun [Latin penna, pinna.]

1. A small pointed instrument made of brass wire and headed; used chiefly by females for fastening their clothes.

2. A piece of wood or metal sharpened or pointed, used to fasten together boards, plank or other timber. The larger pins of metal are usually called bolts, and the wooden pins used in ship building are called treenails [trunnels.] A small wooden pin is called a peg.

3. A thing of little value. It is not a pin's matter. I care not a pin

4. A linchpin.

5. The central part.

6. A peg used in musical instruments in straining and relaxing the strings.

7. A note or strain.

8. A horny induration of the membranes of the eye.

9. A cylindrical roller made of wood.

10. A noxious humor in a hawk's foot.

11. The pin of a block is the axis of the sheave.

PIN, verb transitive To fasten with a pin or with pins of any kind; as, to pin the clothes; to pin boards or timbers.

1. To fasten; to make fast; or to join and fasten together.

Our gates--we have but pinned with rushes.

She lifted the princess from the earth, and so locks her in embracing, as if she would pin her to her heart.

2. To inclose; to confine. [See the verbs Pen and Pound.]

Pin-Maker

PIN'-MAKER, n. One whose occupation is to make pins.

Pinaster

PINAS'TER, noun [Latin See Pine.] The wild pine.

Pincase

PIN'CASE, noun A case for holding pins.

Pincers

PINCERS, an erroneous orthography of pinchers, which see.

Pinch

PINCH, verb transitive

1. To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, the teeth, claws, or with an instrument, etc.

2. To squeeze or compress between any two hard bodies.

3. To squeeze the flesh till it is pained or livid.

4. To gripe; to straiten; to oppress with want; as, to pinch a nation; to pinch the belly; to be pinched for want of food.

5. To pain by constriction; to distress; as pinching cold. The winter pinches.

6. To press; to straiten by difficulties; as, the argument pinches the objector.

The respondent is pinched with a strong objection.

7. To press hard; to try thoroughly.

PINCH, verb intransitive To act with pressing force; to bear hard; to be puzzling. You see where the reasons pinch

1. To spare; to be straitened; to be covetous.

The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare,

Starve, steal and pilfer to enrich an heir.

PINCH, noun A close compression with the ends of the fingers.

1. A gripe; a pang.

2. Distress inflected or suffered; pressure; oppression; as necessity's sharp pinch

3. Straits; difficulty; time of distress from want.

Pinchbeck

PINCH'BECK, noun [said to be from the name of the inventor.]

An alloy of copper; a mixture of copper and zink, consisting of three or four parts of copper with one of zink.

Pincher

PINCH'ER, noun He or that which pinches.

Pinchers

PINCH'ERS, noun plural [from pinch, not from the French pincette.]

An instrument for drawing nails from boards and the like, or for griping things to be held fast.

Pinchfist

PINCH'FIST

PINCH'PENNY, noun A miser; a niggard.

Pincushion

PIN'CUSHION, noun A small case stuffed with some soft material, in which females stick pins for safety and preservation.

Pindaric

PINDAR'IC, adjective After the style and manner of Pindar.

PINDAR'IC, noun An ode in imitation of the odes of Pindar the Grecian, and prince of the lyric poets; an irregular ode.

Pindust

PIN'DUST, noun Small particles of metal made by pointing pins.

Pine

PINE, noun [Latin pinus.] A tree of the genus Pinus, of many species, some of which furnish timber of the most valuable kind. The species which usually bear this name in the United States, are the white pine Pinus strobus, the prince of our forests; the yellow pine Pinus resinosa; and the pitch pine Pinus rigida. The other species of this genus are called by other names, a fir, hemlock, larch, spruce, etc.

PINE, verb intransitive

1. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away under any distress of anxiety of mind; to grow lean; followed sometimes by away.

Ye shall not mourn nor weep, but ye shall pine away for your iniquities. Ezekiel 24:23.

2. To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; usually followed by for.

Unknowing that she pin'd for your return.

PINE, verb transitive To wear out; to make to languish.

Where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime.

Beroe pined with pain.

1. To grieve for; to bemoan in silence.

Abashed the devil stood--

Virtue in her own shape how lovely, saw,

And pined his loss.

[In the transitive sense, this verb is now seldom used, and this use is improper, except by ellipsis.]

PINE, noun Woe; want; penury; misery.

[This is obsolete. See Pain.]

Pine-Apple

PINE-APPLE, noun The ananas, a species of Bromelia, so called from its resemblance to the cone of the pine tree.

Pineal

PIN'EAL, adjective [Latin pinus.] The pineal gland is a part of the brain, about the bigness of a pea, situated in the third ventricle; so called from its shape. It was considered by Descartes as the seat of the soul.

Pineful

PI'NEFUL, adjective Full of woe. [Not used.]

Pinery

PI'NERY, noun A place where pine-apples are raised.

PIN'-FETHER, noun A small or short fether.

PIN'-FETHERED, adjective Having the fethers only beginning to shoot; not fully fledged.

Pinfold

PIN'FOLD, noun [pin or pen and fold; Eng. to pound.]

A place in which beasts are confined. We now call it a pound.

Pingle

PIN'GLE, noun A small close. [Not used.]

Pinguid

PIN'GUID, adjective [Latin pinguis; Gr. compact; Latin pactus; Eng.pack.]

Fat; unctuous. [Not used.]

Pinhole

PIN'HOLE, noun A small hole made by the puncture or perforation of a pin; a very small aperture.

Pining

PI'NING, participle present tense Languishing; wasting away.

Pinion

PINION, noun pin'yon.

1. The joint of a fowl's wing, remotest from the body.

2. A fether; a quill.

3. A wing.

Hope humbly then, on trembling pinions soar.

4. The tooth of a smaller wheel, answering to that of a larger.

5. Fetters or bands for the arms.

PINION, verb transitive pin'yon. To bind or confine the wings.

1. To confine by binding the wings.

2. To cut off the first joint of the wing.

3. To bind or confine the arm or arms to the body.

4. To confine; to shackle; to chain; as, to be pinioned by formal rules of state.

5. To bind; to fasten to.

Pinioned

PIN'IONED, participle passive Confined by the wings; shackled.

1. adjective Furnished with wings.

Pinionist

PIN'IONIST, noun A winged animal; a fowl. [Not used.]

Pinirolo

PINIRO'LO, noun A bird resembling the sandpiper, but larger; found in Italy.

Pinite

PIN'ITE, noun [from Pini, a mine in Saxony.]

A mineral holding a middle place between steatite and mica; the micarel of Kirwan. It is found in prismatic crystals of a greenish white color, brown or deep red. It occurs also massive.

Pink

PINK, noun

1. An eye, or a small eye; but now disused except in composition, as in pink-eyed, pink-eye.

2. A plant and flower of the genus Dianthus, common in our gardens.

3. A color used by painters; from the color of the flower.

4. Any thing supremely excellent.

5. A ship with a very narrow stern.

6. A fish, the minnow.

PINK, verb transitive To work in eyelet-holes; to pierce with small holes.

1. To stab; to pierce.

Pink-Eyed

PINK'-EYED, adjective Having small eyes.

PINK'-NEEDLE, noun A shepherd's bodkin.

PIN'-STERNED, adjective Having a very narrow stern; as a ship.

Pinnace

PIN'NACE, noun A small vessel navigated with oars and sails, and having generally two masts rigged like those of a schooner; also, a boat usually rowed with eight oars.

Pinnacle

PIN'NACLE, noun [Latin pinna.]

1. A turret, or part of a building elevated above the main building.

Some metropolis

With glistering spires and pinnacles adorn'd.

2. A high spiring point; summit.

PIN'NACLE, verb transitive To build or furnish with pinnacles.

Pinnacled

PIN'NACLED, participle passive Furnished with pinnacles.

Pinnage

PIN'NAGE, noun Poundage of cattle. [Not used.] [See Pound.]

Pinnate

PIN'NATE

PIN'NATED, adjective [Latin pinnatus, from pinna, a fether or fin.]

In botany, a pinnate leaf is a species of compound leaf wherein a simple petiole has several leaflets attached to each side of it.

Pinnated

PIN'NATED, a. [L. pinnatus, from pinna, a fether or fin.]

In botany, a pinnate leaf is a species of compound leaf wherein a simple petiole has several leaflets attached to each side of it.

Pinnatifid

PIN'NATIFID, adjective [Latin pinna, a fether, and findo, to cleave.]

In botany, fether-cleft. A pinnatifid leaf is a species of simple leaf, divided transversely by oblong horizontal segments or jags, not extending to the mid rib.

Pinnatiped

PIN'NATIPED, adjective [Latin pinna and pes, foot.] Fin-footed; having the toes bordered by membranes.

Pinned

PIN'NED, participle passive Fastened with pins; confined.

Pinner

PIN'NER, noun One that pins or fastens; also, a pounder of cattle, or the pound keeper.

1. A pin-maker.

2. The lappet of a head which flies loose.

Pinnite

PIN'NITE, noun Fossil remains of the Pinna, a genus of shells.

Pinnock

PIN'NOCK, noun A small bird, the tomtit.

Pinnulate

PIN'NULATE, adjective A pinnulate leaf is one in which each pinna is subdivided.

Pint

PINT, noun Half a quart, or four gills. In medicine, twelve ounces. It is applied both to liquid and dry measure.

Pintle

PIN'TLE, noun A little pin. In artillery, a long iron bolt.

Pinules

PIN'ULES, noun plural In astronomy, the sights of an astrolabe.

Pioneer

PIONEE'R, noun

1. In the art and practice of war, one whose business is to march with or before an army, to repair the road or clear it of obstructions, work at intrenchments, or form mines for destroying an enemy's works.

2. One that goes before to remove obstructions or prepare the way for another.

Pioning

PI'ONING, noun The work of pioneers. [Not used.]

Piony

PI'ONY

PE'ONY, noun [Latin poeonia; Gr. from Apollo, a physician, and a hymn.]

An herbaceous perennial plant of the genus Paeonia, with tuberous roots, and bearing large beautiful red flowers.

Pious

PI'OUS, adjective [Latin pius.]

1. Godly; reverencing and honoring the Supreme Being in heart and in the practice of the duties he has enjoined; having due veneration and affection for the character of God, and habitually obeying his commands; religious; devoted to the service of God; applied to persons.

2. Dictated by reverence to God; proceeding from piety; applied to things; as pious awe; pious services of affections; pious sorrow.

3. Having due respect and affection for parents or other relatives; practicing the duties of respect and affection towards parents or other near relatives.

4. Practiced under the pretense of religion; as pious frauds.

Piously

PI'OUSLY, adverb In a pious manner; with reverence and affection for God; religiously; with due regard to sacred things or to the duties God has enjoined.

1. With due regard to natural or civil relations and to the duties which spring from them.

Pip

PIP, noun A disease of fowls; a horny pellicle that grows on the tip of their tongue.

1. A spot on cards.

PIP, verb intransitive [Latin pipio.] To cry or chirp, as a chicken; commonly pronounced peep.

Pipe

PIPE, noun [Eng. fife.]

1. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a long tube of wood or metal; as a rural pipe The word, I believe, is not now the proper technical name of any particular instrument, but is applicable to any tubular wind instrument, and it occurs in bagpipe.

2. A long tube or hollow body; applied to the veins and arteries of the body, and to many hollow bodies, particularly such as are used for conductors of water or other fluids.

3. A tube of clay with a bowl at one end; used in smoking tobacco.

4. The organs of voice and respiration; as in windpipe.

5. The key or sound of the voice.

6. In England, a roll in the exchequer, or the exchequer itself. Hence, pipe-office is an office in which the clerk of the pipe makes out leases of crown lands, accounts of sheriffs, etc.

7. A cask containing two hogsheads or 120 gallons, used for wine; or the quantity which it contains.

8. In mining, a pipe is where the ore runs forward endwise in a hole, and does not sink downwards or in a vein.

PIPE, verb intransitive To play on a pipe fife, flute or other tubular wind instrument of music.

We have piped to you, and ye have not danced. Matthew 11:17.

1. To have a shrill sound; to whistle.

PIPE, verb transitive To play on a wind instrument. 1 Corinthians 14:7.

Pipe-Fish

PI'PE-FISH, noun A fish of the genus Syngnathus.

Pipe-Tree

PIPE-TREE, noun The lilac.

Piped

PI'PED, adjective Formed with a tube; tubular.

Piper

PI'PER, noun One who plays on a pipe or wind instrument.

Piperidge

PIP'ERIDGE, noun A shrub, the berberis, or barberry.

The piperidge of New England is the nyssa villosa, a large tree with very tough wood.

Piperin

PIP'ERIN, noun A concretion of volcanic ashes.

1. A peculiar crystalline substance extracted from black pepper. The crystals of piperin are transparent, of a straw color, and they assume the tetrahedral prismatic form with oblique summits.

Piping

PI'PING, participle present tense Playing on a pipe.

1. adjective Weak; feeble; sickly. [Vulgar and not in use in America.]

2. Very hot; boiling; from the sound of boiling fluids. [Used in vulgar language.]

Pipistrel

PIPIS'TREL, noun A species of bat, the smallest of the kind.

Pipkin

PIP'KIN, noun [dim. of pipe.] A small earthen boiler.

Pippin

PIP'PIN, noun A kind of apple; a tart apple. This name in America is given to several kinds of apples, as to the Newtown pippin an excellent winter apple, and the summer pippin a large apple, but more perishable than the Newtown pippin