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.
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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.
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.
A piller; a plunderer.
See Pilose.
Among the Jews, penetrating investigation, disputation, and drawing of conclusions, esp. in Talmudic study.
An insect that flies into a flame.
Of or pertaining to pills; resembling a pill or pills; as, a pilular mass.
Like a pill; small; insignificant.
A pillow.
Like pile or wool.
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in galipot, and isomeric with abietic acid.
Pertaining to, or designating, a substance obtained from certain fatty substances, and subsequently shown to be a mixture of suberic and adipic acids. Designating the acid proper (C5H10(CO2H)2) which is obtained from camphoric acid.
An apple-green mineral having a greasy feel. It is a hydrous silicate of nickel, magnesia, aluminia, and iron.
Wine flavored with spice or honey. See Pigment, 3.
Same as Pimento.
Allspice; -- applied both to the tree and its fruit. See Allspice.
The Spanish sweet pepper, the fruit of which is used as a vegetable, to stuff olives, etc.; also the fruit itself. Also called pimento.
The friar bird.
An olive stuffed with a kind of sweet red pepper, or pimiento.
To procure women for the gratification of others' lusts; to pander.
A plant of the genus Anagallis, of which one species (Anagallis arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather.
A West Indian name for the prickly pear (Opuntia); -- called also pimploes.
The burnet saxifrage. See under Saxifrage.
Little; petty; pitiful.
Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not.
Having pimples.
Pimpled.
The office, occupation, or persom of a pimp.
To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.
Having the stigma visible at the throad of a gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concealed in the tube; -- said of dimorphous flowers. The opposite of thrum-eyed.
Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge; as, a pin-fire rifle.
Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; -- said of birds.
A plane parallel to two of the crystalline axes.
A colorless oily liquid related to the ketones, and obtained by the decomposition of pinacone; hence, by extension, any one of the series of which pinacolin proper is the type.
A white crystalline substance related to the glycols, and made from acetone; hence, by extension, any one of a series of substances of which pinacone proper is the type.
A picture gallery.
An apron for a child to protect the front part of dress; a tier.
Pinacotheca.
A species of pine (Pinus Pinaster) growing in Southern Europe.
A tablet; a register; hence, a list or scheme inscribed on a tablet.
Eyeglasses kept on the nose by a spring.
See Pinchers.
A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.
Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.
A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
The European blue titmouse.
One who, or that which, pinches.
An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc.
A closefisted person; a miser.
Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony.
In a pinching way.
A miserly person.
A commercial preparation of garancin, yielding fine violet tints.
An African wren warbler. (Drymoica textrix).
A small cushion, in which pins may be stuck for use.
The peanut (Arachis hypog/a); -- so called in the West Indies.
Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes. A Pindaric ode.
Pindaric.
Imitation of Pindar.
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