Pilgrimize to Pimple
Pilgrimize
(Pil"grim*ize) v. i. To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Pilidium
(||Pi*lid"i*um) n.; pl. Pildia [NL., fr. Gr. dim. of a cap.] (Zoöl.) 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.
Pilifera
(||Pi*lif"e*ra) n. pl. [NL. See Piliferous.] (Zoöl.) Same as Mammalia.
Piliferous
(Pi*lif"er*ous) a. [L. pilus hair + -ferous: cf. F. pilifère.]
1. Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair.
2. Beset with hairs.
Piliform
(Pil"i*form) a. [L. pilus hair + -form.] (Bot.) Resembling hairs or down.
Piligerous
(Pi*lig"er*ous) a. [L. pilus hair + -gerous: cf. F. piligère.] Bearing hair; covered with hair or
down; piliferous.
Piling
(Pil"ing) n. [See Pile a heap.]
1. The act of heaping up.
2. (Iron Manuf.) The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.
Piling
(Pil"ing), n. [See Pile a stake.] A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a
bridge.
Pug piling, sheet piles connected together at the edges by dovetailed tongues and grooves. — Sheet
piling, a series of piles made of planks or half logs driven edge to edge, — used to form the walls of
cofferdams, etc.
Pill
(Pill) n. [Cf. Peel skin, or Pillion.] The peel or skin. [Obs.] "Some be covered over with crusts, or
hard pills, as the locusts." Holland.
Pill
(Pill), v. i. To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
Pill
(Pill), v. t. [Cf. L. pilare to deprive of hair, and E. pill, n. ]
1. To deprive of hair; to make bald. [Obs.]
2. To peel; to make by removing the skin.
[Jacob] pilled white streaks . . . in the rods.
Gen. xxx. 37. Pill
(Pill) v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Pilled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pilling.] [F. piller, L. pilare; cf. It. pigliare to
take. Cf. Peel to plunder.] To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder. [Obs.] Spenser.
Pillers and robbers were come in to the field to pill and to rob.
Sir T. Malroy. Pill
(Pill) n. [F. pilute, L. pilula a pill, little ball, dim. of L. pila a ball. Cf. Piles.]
1. A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
2. Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured. Udall.
