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.

Colored; specifically (Biol.), filled or imbued with pigment; as, pigmented epithelial cells; pigmented granules.

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, /.

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.

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

The willet.

To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.

One who pillages.

Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs; as, a pillar drill.

See under Pillow.

Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars.

A little pillar.

See Stylite.

An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, fat, or butter.

Stripped of hair; scant of hair; bald.

See Pilgarlic.

One who pills or plunders.

Plunder; pillage.

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.

To set in, or punish with, the pillory; to pillory.

To set in, or punish with, the pillory.

To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support; as, to pillow the head.

A removable case or covering for a pillow, usually of white linen or cotton cloth.

Provided with a pillow or pillows; having the head resting on, or as on, a pillow.

Like a pillow.

Any myriapod of the genus Iulus and allied genera which rolls up spirally; a galleyworm. See Illust. under Myriapod.

Any plant of the genus Pilularia; minute aquatic cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; -- sometimes called peppergrass.

An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.

A conical loaf of sugar.

Same as Pilon.

Same as Pilon.

Hairy; full of, or made of, hair.

The quality or state of being pilose; hairiness.

To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous.

a small gas flame kept burning continuously on a stove, water heater, or other gas-burning device, so as to allow immediate ignition of the main flame when the gas flow is turned on.

The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels.

Pilotage; skill in the duties of a pilot.