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.

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.

One who imitates Pindar.

One who impounds; a poundkeeper.

Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus.

Clad or crowned with pine trees; as, pine-clad hills.

Of or pertaining to a pine cone; resembling a pine cone.

A tropical plant (Ananassa sativa); also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.

See Pinaster.

A reddish herb (Pterospora andromedea) of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees.

A small American bird (Spinus spinus syn. Chrysomitris spinus); -- called also pine siskin, and American siskin. The pine grosbeak.

Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis.

A pine forest; a grove of pines.

A reddish fleshy herb of the genus Monotropa (Monotropa hypopitys), formerly thought to be parasitic on the roots of pine trees, but more probably saprophytic.

A plantation of pine trees; esp., a collection of living pine trees made for ornamental or scientific purposes.

A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.

A term used in designating an East Indian tree (the Vateria Indica or piney tree, of the order Dipterocarpe/, which grows in Malabar, etc.) or its products.

A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin.

Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.

The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides syn. Lagodon rhomboides). The salt-water bream (Diplodus Holbrooki).

A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold.

To make the sound called ping.

An indoor modification of lawn tennis played with small bats, or battledores, and a very light, hollow, celluloid ball, on a large table divided across the middle by a net. Also called table tennis.

To play ping-pong.

the small hollow celluloid ball used for the game of ping-pong.

A small piece of inclosed ground.

See Pinkster.

A making of, or turning into, fat.

See Butterwort.

Fat; unctuous; greasy.

Containing fat; fatty.

Fatness; a growing fat; obesity.

A place where a pin is fixed.

Of or pertaining to the pine; obtained from the pine; formerly, designating an acid which is the chief constituent of common resin, -- now called abietic, or sylvic, acid.

Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.

In a pining manner; droopingly.

To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.

Having wings or pinions.

Any winged creature.

Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the Pine family.

Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.

Having small eyes.

Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.

Pierced with small holes; worked in eyelets; scalloped on the edge.

The act of piercing or stabbing.

Somewhat pink.

Quality or state of being pink.

The root of Spigelia Marilandica, used as a powerful vermifuge; also, that of Spigelia Anthelmia. See definition 2 (below).

Whitsuntide.

See 1st Pink.

A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate. One of the primary divisions of a decompound leaf.

A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne. A man-of-war's boat.

To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.

Poundage of cattle. See Pound.