with hair Filar muscles, the erector muscle* of 
hairs ; arrectores pilorum. 
pilary (pil'a-ri), a. [< "L.pHus, a hair (soepile*), 
+ -ary.] Of or pertaining to hair or the hair. 
She had never suffered from any pilary loss, cutaneous 
affection. ... or any other symptom of disorder. 
Medical Hewi, LIII. 411. 
pilaster (pi-las'ter), . [Formerly also pillaster; 
= Sp. Pg. pilastra, < P. pilugtre, < It. pilastro, 
< ML. pilastrum, a small pil- 
lar, dim. of L. pila, a pillar: 
see pile? and -aster. ] A square 
pillar, with its capital and 
base, projecting from a pier, 
or from a wall, to the extent 
of from one quarter to one 
third of its breadth; an en- 
gaged pillar. In Greek architec- 
ture pilasters were not made to cor- 
respond In form with the order of 
columns In connection with which 
they were used ; but in the Roman 
and later styles they commonly fol- 
low closely the design of the accom- 
panying columns. Seeonfal. 
pilastered (pi-las'terd), a. [< 
pilaxter + -erf 2 .] Furnished 
with pilasters. 
The polish'd walls of marble be 
Pilcuiter'd round with porphyry. 
Cotton, Entertainment to Phillis. 
pilau (pi-la'), n. [Alsorifew, 
Pilaster. 
Grand Trianon. Ver- 
sailles, France (built 
byLouisXIV.). 
pi- 
v. ^ r - n "- i. / --"--' byLouisXIV.). 
pillaw, pillaw, pilaff, ptllafle; 
= F. pilau = It. pilao = G. pilaw = Buss. _ 
lavil = NGr. mAd^u, < Turk, pilaw = Hind, jm- 
laa, patiio, < Pers. pilaw, pilaw, a dish of rice 
boiled with meat, spices, etc.] An Oriental 
dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, kid, 
or fowl, and flavored with spices, raisins, but- 
ter, broth, etc. It is a favorite dish among Moham- 
medans everywhere, and its composition and preparation 
vary among the different tribes in Turkey, Arabia, I'ersia, 
Egypt, etc. It is eaten in Western countries with some 
variations, such as the addition of savory herbs and vege- 
tables, and sometimes of beef or pork. 
Their most ordinary food is pillow that is, Rice which 
hath been sod with the fat of Mutton. 
Saiulijf, Travailes, p. 51. 
The dinner concluded with a pillaw of boiled rice and 
butter; for the easier discussion of which we were pro- 
vided with carved wooden spoons. 
K. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 477. 
Boiled mutton cold chicken, pilau of rice with raisins. 
G. Kennan, The Century, XXXVI. 522. 
4485 
2. A fish, Clupea sagajc, closely related to the pil- 
chard. [California.] 3. A third fish of the fam- 
ily Clupeidx, Harengvla tnacrophthalma. [Ber- 
mudas.] 4. The young menhaden. [Chesa- 
peake Bay, U. S.] 
pilcher 1 ! (pil'eher), H. [< pilch + -er (used in- 
definitely).] 1. One who wears a pUch. 
You mungrels, you curs, you ban-dogs [the Serjeants of 
the Counter] ' we are Captain Tucca that talk to you, you 
inhuman yiUlim. B. Jontan, I'oetastt-r, ill. 1. 
2. A pilch. 3. A scabbard. [Cant.] 
Will you pluck your sword out of \i\spilcher\rj theunT 
Shak., K. and )., Hi. 1. 84. 
pilcher'^t, Same as pilchard. 
Dout. What meat eats the Spaniard ? 
Pilch. Dried pilchcri and poor John. 
Middtetou, Blurt, Master-Constable, L _>. 
pilcornt, See pillcorn. 
pilcrowt (pil'kro), n. [Formerly also pillcrow, 
pilkrow. pylcrow, pcelcrow, corrupted forms, 
simulating crow* (the character ff, in older 
form 1 , with its black body, and with its stem 
variously curled or flourished, suggesting that 
sable bird), of pylcrafte, parcrafte, pargrafte, 
corrupted forms of paragraph: seettaragraph.] 
The character fl, used to mark the beginning of 
a new paragraph : same as paragraph, 4. 
A lesson how to confer every abstract with his moneth, 
and how to find out huswHery verses by the pilerme. 
Tuaer.l 
Lapei. But why a peel-emu* hereT 
'.'.,/. I told bun so, sir : 
A scare-crow had been better. 
Fletcher (and another '<\ Nice Valour, iv. 1. 
pile 1 (pil ), n. [< ME. pile, pil, < AS. j*V, a sharp 
stake or stick, as the gnomon of a dial, a stake 
or pile driven in the bed of a river, a prickle of 
the holly, a nail, also in comp. an arrow or dart 
(hilde-pil, ' war-dart,' orthanc-pil, 'subtle dart,' 
searo-pil, 'subtle dart,' tctelpil, 'slaughter- 
dart'); also pile, a stake, in comp. htnes-jtile; 
= V.]riil = MLG. pil = OHG. 2>nil, fil, MHG. 
phUfpjtl, G. pfeil, an arrow, dart, bolt, shaft, = 
Icel. pila = Sw. Dan. ]>il, an arrow, 
= OF. pile, m., a javelin, = Sp. Pg. 
]>ilo, a javelin, = It. pilo, a javelin, 
dart, pestle, < li. pilum, a javelin, a 
heavy javelin used by infantry, lit. 
a pounder, pestle, contr. of 'pinlurn, 
"piftvlum (cf. pititillum, a pestle, > E. 
pestle and pixlil) ; cf . pila, a mortar 
(> AS. pile, a mortar, also in comp. 
, of L , pclhccHS, of **" rf h ninxfrf n j nd . ' h 4, t . br ' n 
cium, a furred garment, fern 
fur or skin, < pelUa, skin : see pell 1 .] If. A coat 
or cloak of skins or fur ; later, a buff or leather 
jerkin: applied also to a coarse garment of other 
material, worn for warmth. 
And the! clothen hem also with Pylches, and the Hyde 
with outen. Mandecille, Travels, p. 247. 
No man caste his pUehe away. Chaucer, Proverbs, L 4. 
He ... was blakke and rough, for-rympled and longe- 
berde, and bar foote, and clothed in a rough pilche. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 424. 
Thy vesture that thon shalt use ben these, a warme 
Pile of an 
arrow, 1 3th or 
piserc, pitisere, pound, be'at, bray, '<'"""" 
crush.] 1. The pointed head of a staff, pike, 
arrow, or the like, when not barbed, generally 
of a rounded form and serving as a ferrule; 
also, an arrow. 
Cut otf the timber of this cursed shaft, 
And let the fork'd pile canker to my heart. 
fhiiinniin. Gentleman t'sher, Iv. 1. 
The artist has carefully distinguished thebarbed head of 
the arrow and the pile of the crossbow bolt, 
Hewitt, Anc. Armour, I., p. xliL 
With the right hand draw the arrow from the quiver, 
pass it across the Iww until the steel pile projects ten inches 
pylche for wynter, and oo kirtel, and oo cote for somer. -------------- . 
MS. Bodl. 423, f. 182. (Halliwett.) beyond the handle. M. and W. Thompton, Archery, p. 16. 
2f. A javelin. [Rare.] 
He beate flue pounds out of his leather pilch. 
Dekker, Satiromastix. 
2. A flannel cloth for an infant. Hallitccll. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
pilch'-'t, r. . [Perhaps a var. of pick 1 , accom. 
to pilfer or filch.'] To pilfer. Danes. [Rare.] 
Some steal, some pilch, 
Some all away fllch. 
Tuaer, Husbandly, September's Abstract. 
pilchard (pil'chard), n. [With accom. suffix 
-ard for -er; earlier pilclier, < Ir. pilseir, a pil- 
That was but civil war, an equal set, 
Where pilet with pila, and eagles eagles met 
Dryden, Hind and Panther, 11. 161. 
[The above is an imitation of the following passage : 
"Infestisqne obvla slgnis 
Signa, pares aquilas, et ptla minantia pOu." 
Luean, Fharsalia, ill. 7.] 
3. A pointed stake ; specifically, in arch, and 
engin., abeam, heavy, generally of timber, often 
-aor -cr; ewr pcte, . , - the roughly tnmmedtrunk of a tree, pointed or 
chard ; cf. W. pUcod, pi., minnows. The F. pil- not at tie end and driven into the soil for the 
chard is from E.] 1. A fish of the family Clu- support of some superstructure or to form part 
peute, Clupea pilchard, resembling the her- of a wall, as of a coffer-dam^ or My-For rrma. 
ring, but tWkir and rounder, with the under ^^ 8 n f a ^ 
upon the heads of the piles the foundations of the super- 
structure are erected. In temporary constructions they 
are driven close together In single or double rows, so as 
to inclose a space of water and form a coffer-dam, from 
which the water is subsequently pumped out. and thus a 
dry space is obtained for laying the foundation of piers, 
etc in bridges and other similar works. Iron pile* are 
used for wharf -walls and other purposes ; they are hollow 
or tubular within, and are cast In various forms. See cuts 
under late-dmUing, piU-driver, and pOewrlc. 
They raiiune In great pilet of woodde, which they lay 
verv decpe. upon the which they place their hricke. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 206. 
What rotten vilet uphold their mason- work. 
Tennyton, Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham. 
4t. A post such as that used in the exercise of 
the quintain. 
pile 
Of fight, the dlsclplyne and exercise 
Was this. To have a pale or pile upright 
Of nmnnys bight, thu writeth olile and wise; 
Therwlth a bacheler, or a yong knyslr 
Shal first be taught to stonde and (erne to fight. 
And fanne of doubil wight, tak him his shelde 
Of doubil wight, a mace of tre to wt-Ide. 
This fanne and mace which* either doubil wight 
Of shelde, and swayed In conflict* or batalle, 
Shal exercise as well swordmen as knyghtea, 
MS. CoM. Titut, A. xxllL foL 617. 
And noe man, as they sayn, la scyn prevalle. 
In field or In casU'll, thougbe he aaaayle. 
That with the ptte nathc li. e. ne hath, hath not] flrste grete 
exerclae ; 
Thus wrlteth Werrouris olde and vjnt. 
Knyghthode and Batayle (quoted in strutt'a Sport* md 
lite! lint-*, p. 1S6X 
False Pile, an additional length given to a pile after driv- 
ing. E. U. Knight. Gaged piles, large piles placed at 
regular distances apart, with horizontal beams railed run- 
nen lltt*d to each side of them by notching, and secured 
by bolts. They form a guide for the fllllng-piles, which 
are drawn between the runners, filling up the spaces be- 
tween them.- Hollow pile, a large wrought- or cast-Iron 
cylinder sunk In sandy strata l>y digging away or forcing out 
the sand from the Inside. Sections of cylinder are added 
above, as may be necessary, and secured by flange* and 
bolta. Hydraulic pile, a pile sunk in sanu by means of 
a water-Jet. Two methods are followed. In one, a hollow 
Iron pile Is set upright in the sand In the position It Is to 
occupy, while a powerful stream of water Is forced Into 
the pile and escapes through a hole at the point of (be 
tube, forcing up the sand, so that the tube rapidly sinks. In 
the other method, solid wooden piles are sunk in the some 
manner, the Jet being delivered at the foot of the pile bv 
means of an Iron pipe let down beside the pile snd af- 
terward withdrawn. (In stopping the water-Jet the sand 
quickly settles around the pile and holds It flnnly In posi- 
tion. Pneumatic pile. See pneumatic. (See also terev- 
pile, theet-pile.) 
pile 1 (pil), '. ' ; pret. and pp. piled, ppr. piling. 
[< pile 1 , n.] 1. To furnish with a pile or head. 
At Delops Magus threw 
A speare veMpilde, that strooke his caske fill In the height ; 
off flew 
His purple feather, newly made, and in the dust It fell. 
Chapman, Iliad, xv. 
2. To furnish, strengthen, or support with piles; 
drive piles into. 
pile 2 (pil), n. [< ME. pile, pyle, a pile (tower or 
castle) (the alleged AS. *pil, a pillar, is not au- 
thorized), < OV.pilf, f., a pier, mole, pyramid, 
etc., F. pile, a pier, mole, pile or reverse of a 
coin, = Sp. pila, a pillar, font, holy-water font, 
trough, = OH. pila, a dam, bowl of a font, laver, 
cistern, It. jiila, a flat pillar, trough, holy-water 
font, < L. pila, a pillar, a pier or mole of stone. 
Pilf in the senses given below is generally in- 
cluded with pile 3 , 'a heap,' etc.; but see pile 3 . 
Pile? is also more or less confused in various 
senses with the related pile 1 . Ct.peel*.] It. 
A pillar; specifically, a small pillar of iron, en- 
graved on the top with the image to be given 
to the under side of a coin stamped upon it; 
hence, the under side or reverse of the coin 
itself: opposed to the cross. 2f. A tower or 
castle: same &s]>eet*. 
For to delnen a dyche dene a-boute Vnitc, 
That holy-cherchc stode In Vnltc as It a pylt were. 
Pieri rioirman (B), xlx. 360. 
Alle men children In towne A pile 
To alee them, that Ihesus mygbt with hem die. 
Ilitmiu to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 45. 
The Inhabitants at this day call It Mllnesse ; and as small 
a village as it Is, yet hath It a pile. 
Holland, tr. of Camdcn, p. 775. (Davfet.) 
3. A large building or mass of buildings of 
stone or brick ; a massive edifice : as, a noble 
pile; a venerable pile. 
Went to see Clarendon House, now almost ftnlah'd, a 
goodly pile to see to. Kvelyn, Diary, Nov. 28, 1666. 
In the midst of the ruins, there stands up one pile higher 
than the rest, which Is the East end of a great Church, 
probably of the Cathedral of Tyre. 
Mamulrrll, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 4V. 
Scott, Marmlon, II. 1. 
Pilchard (Clu 
jaw shorter, the back more elevated, the belly 
less sharp, and the mouth edentulous. These 
fishes appear on the Cornish coast In England about the 
middle of July in Immense numbers, and furnish a con- 
siderable article of commerce. See ichiie-bait. 
Fools are as like husbands as pilchard* are to herrings. 
Shak., T. X., Hi. 1. 39. 
282 
High Whitby's cloistered pile. 
4. A pyramid ; a pyramidal figure ; specifical- 
ly, in tier., a bearing consisting of a pyramidal 
or wedge-shaped figure (generally assumed to 
represent an arrow-head), which, unless other- 
wise blazoned, seems to emerge from the top 
of the escutcheon with its point downward. It 
is usually considered one of the subordinaries, 
but by some authors as an ordinary. Sec pile 1 . 
1. and phrases be-low.- Cross and pile. See crosi. 
Cross pile a pile in which boards, iron ban, or the like 
an placedln alternate layers at right angles to each other. 
Perplle inhrr . divided by lines In the form of a pile- 
that Is, forming a V-shaped figure In the field. If this V- 
shaped figure has not its point downward, the blazon moat 
express It as per pile Irantpoted, per pile nrerted, paySU 
trarene, etc. Pile solid. In her., a pile represented as 
in relief, having three lines, which give It the appear 
ance of a blunt pyramid, projecting upward from the 
Held, one of the three triangles thus formed is of a dif- 
ferent tincture frini the others, to help the solid appear- 
ance.- Triple pile, triple-pointed pile, in her., a pfle 
