One who pieces; a patcher.

Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed.

Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald.

Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.

A manganesian kind of epidote, from Piedmont. See Epidote.

The state of being pied.

See Pedestal.

A man who makes or sells pies.

See Peen.

Full; having all the instruments.

A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.

An ancient court of record in England, formerly incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owned or had the toll was the judge.

Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings. Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.

Same as Wharfage.

To enter; to penetrate; to make a way into or through something, as a pointed instrument does; -- used literally and figuratively.

That may be pierced.

Penetrated; entered; perforated.

A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.

One who, or that which, pierces or perforates An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. A piercel.

Forcibly entering, or adapted to enter, at or by a point; perforating; penetrating; keen; -- used also figuratively; as, a piercing instrument, or thrust.

Of or pertaining to Pierides or Muses.

Any butterfly of the genus Pieris and related genera. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.

The Muses.

Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a breakwater, a mole, etc.

The dipper, or water ouzel. The magpie.

A representation of the dead Christ, attended by the Virgin Mary or by holy women and angels.

The principle or practice of the Pietists.

One of a class of religious reformers in Germany in the 17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the Protestant churches; -- often applied as a term of reproach to those who make a display of religious feeling. Also used adjectively.

Of or pertaining to the Pietists; hence, in contempt, affectedly or demonstratively religious.

Veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being, and love of his character; loving obedience to the will of God, and earnest devotion to his service.

The lapwing, or pewit.

An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.

Act of piffling; trifling talk or action; piddling; twaddle.

To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow.

Having small, deep-set eyes.

Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn.

Having the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower, with the upper incisors in advance of the lower; -- said of dogs.

Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians.

To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling.

Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.

Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted.

Pigeon-hearted.

The dove's-foot geranium (Geranium molle).

To place in the pigeonhole of a case or cabinet; hence, to put away; to lay aside indefinitely; as, to pigeonhole a letter or a report.

A place for pigeons; a dovecote.

Having the toes turned in.

A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it.

Any one of several species of salt-water grunts; -- called also hogfish. A sculpin. The name is also applied locally to several other fishes.

A marine fish (Scorp/na porcus), native of Europe. It is reddish brown, mottled with dark brown and black.

A piggin. See 1st Pig.

A place where swine are kept.

A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper.

Relating to, or like, a pig; greedy.

Pitched; fixed; determined.

A small inclosure.

See Pygmean.

Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.

Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments.

A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver.

Pigmental.

See Pygmy.

To pledge or pawn.

The act of pledging or pawning.

Pledging, pawning.

A pledge or pawn.

See Groundnut (d). The bitter-flavored nut of a species of hickory (Carya glabra syn. Carya porcina); also, the tree itself.

A pen, or sty, for pigs.

The skin of a pig, -- used chiefly for making saddles; hence, a colloquial or slang term for a saddle.

A word of endearment for a girl or woman.

A pigpen.

The tail of a pig.

Having a tail like a pig's; as, the pigtailed baboon.

A name of several annual weeds. See Goosefoot, and Lamb's-quarters.

A cant word for anything petty or small. It is used by Drayton as the name of a fairy.

Any one of several species of tailless rodents of the genus Ochotona (formerly Lagomys), resembling small rabbits, but with short ears alnd legs. They inhabit the high mountains of Asia and America. Called also calling hare, and crying hare and rock rabbit. See Chief hare.

A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.

A pointed beard.

Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed.

A light, thin cake or muffin.

A soldier armed with a pike.

The staff, or shaft, of a pike.

See Pintail, 1.

See Picrolite.

See Pelage.

An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less.

Furnished with pilasters.

See Pillau.

A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur.

A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England.

The pilchard.

a paragraph mark, /.

To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; -- often with up; as, to pile up wood.

Having the pile worn off; threadbare.

Having the form of a cap for the head.

Formed from a pile or fagot; as, piled iron.

Having the form of a pileus or cap; pileate.

An accumulation; a heap.

An easy chariot or carriage, used by Roman ladies, and in which the vessels, etc., for sacred rites were carried.

A cap of cells which covers the growing extremity of a root; a rootcap.

Consisting of, or covered with, hair; hairy; pilose.

One who places things in a pile.

The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids. [The singular pile is sometimes used.]

A kind of skull cap of felt.

The teredo.

A plant (Ranunculus Ficaria of Linn/us) whose tuberous roots have been used in poultices as a specific for the piles.

To take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by little.

One who pilfers; a petty thief.

Thieving in a small way. Petty theft.

Petty theft.

One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.

To journey; to wander; to ramble.

The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.

To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage.

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.

Same as Mammalia.

Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair.

Resembling hairs or down.

Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.

A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge.