pilgrim 
ramming mtleMly to so many 
"Saints' Wells." 
4488 
Dovetailed piling, a combination of piles fixed by mor- 
Cfcrty7. SartoTEeamrtu. (ed. 1881), p. 117. tiling them Into one another by a double dovetail-joint 
-m*j), . [Early mod. E. also ^j^^nw /!' a^l'ow inward sweating of the lea- 
ther. C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 297. 
) ._. ..- . wv f --- y ----- j - v v 
dertaken by a pilgrim; a traveling on through 
pillar 
Hence 2. Something unpleasant that has to 
be accepted or (metaphorically) swallowed: 
usually qualified by bitter. 
Yet cannot thel abyde to swallow down the noisome 
pille of virltle, being Irittur In their mouths. 
J. r, 1 1 ill, On I.uke IT. 
He said the renunciation of thU Interest was a bitter 
piU which they could not swallow. 
Je/rrton, To Madison (Bancroft's Hist Const., I. 480). 
3. A disagreeable or objectionable person. 
[Slang.] 4. pi. A doctor or surgeon. [Milit. 
and naut. slang.] 5. In varnish-making, the 
ll it h* Ii UT * M'irS'i** 1 * ** ""e . j ~n i '1 'J 'It Hull IlnUl 
strange country or to some place deemed sa- pill 1 1 (pil), r. [Early mod. E. also mf, mfe, ptle; cooked ma ss oTlinseed-oil and gum before tur- 
cred in order to perform some religious vow or also :peel (by cpni ^n^nth^pee^, ^MJb. ] 1 ^ pent ine is added to thin it down and complete 
duty, or obtain some spiritual or miraculous 
benefit. 
In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay, 
Beady to wenden on my pilgrimage. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 21. 
We all by one assent auowed a pylgrymage to be made 
In all our behalfles to our blessyd Lady of Loreta, 
Sir R. Ouyl/orde, Pylgrymage, p. 68. 
Mowbray and myself are like two men 
That vow a long and weary pilgrimane. 
Shot., Rich. II., 1. 3. 49. 
2. Figuratively, the journey of life; the time 
spent in passing through the world to the "bet- pillage. 
...I.. ...I " 
pyllen, piten, pylen, plunder, < OF. piller, F. pil- 
ler, plunder, rifle, ransack, loot, = Sp. pillar, 
plunder, pilfer, = Pg. piUiar = It.pigliare (ML. 
as if piliare), < L. pilare, plunder, pillage, rare 
the varnish. 
ill 3 (pil), v. t. [< pill 3 , n.] 1. To form into 
pills. 2. To dose with pills. [Colloq.] 3. 
To reject by vote; blackball. [Club slang.] 
der, pillage, and common also in ML., pilare 
terland. 
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of 
my pUgrimage are an hundred and thirty years. 
(it'll. XlVlI. 9. 
3f. The time occupied by a pilgrimage ; hence, 
a lifetime. 
In prison hast thon spent a pilgrimage, 
And like a hermit overpass'd thy days. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., II. 5. 116. 
= Byn. 1. Voyage, Tour, etc. See journey. 
pilgrimaget, > * [< pilgrimage, .] To go as 
a pilgrim. [Rare.] 
To Egypt she'll pUgrimage, at Meroe fill 
Warme drops to sprinkle Isis Temple. 
Sir R. Stapleton, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, vl. 555. (Damet.) 
pilgrimer (pil'gri-mer), n. A pilgrim. 
Now. I am Magdalen, a poor pilgrimer, for the sake of 
Holy kirk. Scott, Abbot, xv. 
pilgrlmize (pil'gri-miz), v. i.; pret. and pp. pil- 
Thou sal noght be tyrant til thaim, io pille thalme, and 
spoyle thalm, als the wicked princez duz. 
MS. Coll. Eton. 10, f. 6. (BaUiwU.) 
It is more than two yere that thel ceased neuer torobbe 
ad to pile oure londes. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 656. 
The commons hath hepUTd with grievous taxes. 
Shot., Rich. 1 1., ii. 1. -J in. 
Having pilled a book which no man buys. 
B. Jontm, Epigrams, liii. 
When he who put a his province scapes the laws, 
And keeps his money, though he lost his cause. 
Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, 1. 72. 
n. intrans. To rob; practise robbery ; plun- 
der. 
Whan the wolf hath ful his wombe he stynteth to stran- 
gle sheepe ; but soothly the pllonrs and destroyonrs of 
Ooddes hooly chirche ne do nat so, for they ne stynte 
nevere to pile. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
The poor man that is wrong'd 
Is ready to rebel ; he spoils, he pill*. 
Greene, James IV., T. 
ings of a marsh enter a river. Halliwell. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
From 8. Juste pule or creke to 8. Manditus creeke is a 
mile dim. Leland'i Itinerary (1769X ill. 29. (UaUitceU.) 
Tin- fOlt being the little streams which wear away a 
sort of miniature tidal estuary In the mud-banks as they 
empty themselves Into the Severn and the Wye. 
Seebohm, Eng. VIL Community, p. 180. 
times with an impersonal it. 
Ill bear thy charges, an thou wilt but pilgrimize it along 
with me to the laud of Utopia. 
B. Jonton, Case Is Altered, ii. 4. 
pill, ' Plural of pilus. 
Pilidium (pi-lid'i-um), n. [NL., < Gr. mMtiw, 
a little hat or cap, dim. of wtAoc, a felt hat or 
cap: see pileus."] 
1. A generic 
name given to 
the larvae of 
rhynchocffile tur- 
bellarians, or ne- 
mertean worms, 
under the im- 
pression that 
they are dis- 
tinct animals. 
Pilidium yi/rant Is 
the larva of a species 
of the genus Liiteui. 
The name is retained 
as a convenient des- 
ignation of such pile- 
ate or helmet- shn|>cd 
nemertean lame : in 
this use It Is writ- 
ten without the capi- 
tal, and has a plural 
pilidia. 
2. In riinrh., a 
genus of false 
limpets of the 
family Acnueute. _ 
8f. [/. c.] In 
ln>t., a hemispherical apotheci 
lichens. 
ME. pillen,pilcn,pitien,pullen,pelen, < 
peler, peiler, poiler, F. peler, deprive of hair, 
hair (hides or skins), i 
as pilau. 
n. [< ME. pillage, pyllage, pil- 
l F.) pillage = Pr. pilatge = 8p. 
cm, plunder, pillage, < ML. 
as if'ptiaticum, after Bom. pillagium, plunder, 
< L. pilare (> OF. piller, etc.), plunder: see 
pill 1 .] 1. The act of plundering. 
Pillaiir and robbery. Shak., Hen. V., IT. 1. 17*. 
2. Plunder; spoil; that which is taken from 
another by open force, particularly and chiefly 
from enemies in war. 
Which pillage they with merry march bring home 
To the tent-royal of their emperor. 
Shak., Hen. V., L 2. 195. 
= Syn. PiUagt, Plunder, Booty, Spoil, Prey. These words 
denote that which Is violently got or carried off ; all except 
prey suggest a considerable amount seized. Pilla/je also 
denotes the act ; the others only the thing or things taken. 
Pittaije and tpoil especially suggest the great loss to the 
owners, completely stripping or despoiling them of their 
Mf.pfUer, 
--..., ., of hair, 
_ . .,, scald (pigs), take turf off, 
Pr. Sp. pclar = Pg. pellar = It. pelare, de- 
Srive of hair, pluck, peel, strip, < L. pflarc, ^ ..... _ r 
eprive of hair, depilate, <uUu,nair: sceptic*, property; plunder suggests the miantity and value of that 
Cf : J>tl , rob, pcclf, skin, with which jnlfe has which Is taken : as, loaded with plunder; booty Is prtr 
been more or less confused.] I. trans. 1. To 
deprive of hair ; make bald. Compare pilled. 
2. To peel ; strip; form by stripping off the 
skin or bark. 
Jacob took him rods of green poplar, ... and pilled 
white strakes in them. Gen. xxx 37. 
They take limons which they ml, anointing themselucs pillage (pil'aj), V. t. 
thoroughly with the luice therol^ _ _ ^ ^ __._. . ppr. pillaging. 
the spoils of war, but also of a raid or combined action, as 
of pirates, brigands, or burglars ; upoil is the only one of 
these words that Is used In the plural, except, rarely, prey. 
Prey now seems figurative or archaic when not applied to 
the objects of pursuit by animals: aa, the mouse falls a 
ready prey to both beaate and birds ; hence, when applied 
to that which is pursued or taken by man, it expresses 
condemnation of the act. 
pret. and 
Uage, n.] 
To pill garlict, to do so 
mortification. Compare pU 
hakiuyft Voyaget, n. 58. ^^"n^'^Hn bv^peii 'violence; plunder; 
pp. pillaged, 
To strip of 
to do some unpleasant office; endure 
A, B. younger ami older pilidia : m, Ali- 
mentary canal ; A. imlinirnt of the nemer- 
tean. more advanced tn B than tn A ; C, 
newly freed nemertean. 
inn in certain 
money or goods 
despoil. 
Antwerp, the most famous Town of Trafflck in all Eu- 
And ye shul here how the tapster made the pardonere pull was miserably pillaged. Baker, Chronicles, p. 851. 
Oarlbc al the long nyghte tillt was ner end day ; . . ^^ J^JJ ^ ^^ ^ maMoo ^ 
think it their undoubted right to pillatte the dead. 
Uoldimith, Essays, Pret. 
pillager (pil'a-jer), n. 
[< pillage + -er 1 .] One 
who pillages or plun- 
ders by open violence ; 
Sweet Is the Nut, bat bitter Is his pUJ. a ,F lund ?,7?\ 
Spenier, Sonnets, xxvl. pillar (pil *r), n. [Ear- 
The huake or pUl of a greene nut which blacketh one's ly mod. E. piller; < ME. 
piller, piliare, pyllare, 
pyllour, piler, pyler, 
pylere, pelere, pyleer, 
p'ilour, < OF. piler, pi- 
Qartik al the long nyghte til It was ner end day . 
For the more chore she made of love, the falser wan her lay. 
The Merry Adventure of the Pardonen and Taptter al 
the Inn at Conta-frury (printed in Urry's ed. of Chaucer, 
1721), L 122. 
H. intrans. To peel ; come off in flakes, 
pill-t (pU), n. [< pilfl, v.; a var. of peefl, .] 
1. Peel; skin; rind; outer covering. 
, . , - 
lier, F. pilier = Pr. 
8p. Pg. pilar = It. pi- 
liere = D. pilaar = 
MLG. pilere, pilar, LO. 
fingers and hands. llouyband, Diet, 1693. (HaOiurU.) 
These [hacel-shoott] prune and cleanse of every leaf and 
spray, . . . 
Hut perish not the rlne and utter pill. 
J. .Denny* (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 149). 
2. The refuse of a hawk's prey. Halliwell. 
piliferous (pi-lif 'e-rus), a. [< L.pilits, hair (see pjjjs (pil), . [Early mod. E. also pil, pille (= 
pile*), + /rrr ="E. 6arl.] 1. In hot., bearing MD. pille, nil = G. pille = Dan. pille = 8w.pl. MLG.m/erf, wiinr.LG. 
or tipped with hairs. 2. In zool.j bearing hairs; piller, a pill) ; an abbr. (as if of pilule (= MHG. nfier = OttG piliri 
nillele), which actually appears later), perhaps pfusri, MHG. plnlarr , 
due in part to the written abbr. pil., pi. pill., pfti er> ft. pfeiler = 
in physicians' prescriptions, of L. pilula, a pill, g w nelare = Dan. pil- 
a little ball, dim. of pila, a ball (> OF. pik, a /er jMe _ jj pjj e j r) a 
ball, a pill): see pilule, nil in thus not directly , ) i]i ari < ML. pilare, 
< L. pila, which is not used in the sense of ' pill,' a)go Darius, pilarium, 
but from its dim. pilula.] 1. A globular or 
ovoid mass of medicinal substance, of a 
convenient for swallowing. 
hairy; piligerous: specifically, in entomology, 
noting the tubercles of caterpillars whence 
bundles of hairs arise Piliferous layer, in tot. 
the layer of young superficial tissue of actlTe root* thai 
Is provided with root-hairs. 
piliform (pi'li-fdrm). a. [< L. pilun, hair, + 
forma, form.] Slender or fine as a hair; fili- 
form; filamentous. - 
piligerous (pi-lij'e-rus), a. [< L. pilot, hair, + 
gtrere, carry.] Covered with hair or fur ; pilous 
iir pilose; piliferous. 
piling 1 (iii'lmg),B. [Verbaln. of pile*, r.] 1. In 
miii"., the operation of placing and driving piles 
in position. 2. Piles collectively ; pilework. 
size 
Hard Is It for the patient which Is 111 
Fulaome or bitter potions to digest, 
Yet must he swallow many a bitter pill, 
Er* he reoalne hi former health A red. 
Tina' Whi*le(E. E. T. S.), p. 1(7. 
and jiillcare, a pillar, < 
I,. i>ilft, a pillar, pier, 
mole: see pile'*.] 1. A 
column; a columnar 
mass of any form , often 
composed, or having 
the appearance of be- 
Plllar.- Cathedral of Tom. 
France, ijth century. 
