Pile"worm` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The teredo.
Pile"-worn` (?), a. Having the pile worn off; threadbare.
Pile"wort` (?), n. (Bot.) A plant (Ranunculus Ficaria of LinnÊus) whose
tuberous roots have been used in poultices as a specific for the piles.
Forsyth.
Pil"fer (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pilfered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Pilfering.] [OF. pelfrer. See Pelf.] To steal in small quantities, or
articles of small value; to practice petty theft.
Pil"fer, v. t. To take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by
little.
And not a year but pilfers as he goes Some youthful grace that age
would gladly keep.
Cowper.
Pil"fer*er (?), n. One who pilfers; a petty thief.
Pil"fer*ing, a. Thieving in a small way. Shak. -- n. Petty theft. --
Pil"fer*ing*ly, adv.
Pil"fer*y (?), n. Petty theft. [R.] Sir T. North.
Pil*gar"lic (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] One who has lost his hair by
disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.
Pil"grim (?), n. [OE. pilgrim, pelgrim, pilegrim, pelegrim; cf. D.
pelgrim, OHG. piligrm, G. pilger, F. pËlerin, It. pellegrino; all fr.
L. peregrinus a foreigner, fr. pereger abroad; per through + ager land,
field. See Per-, and Acre, and cf. Pelerine, Peregrine.] 1. A wayfarer;
a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
Strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Heb. xi. 13.
2. One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place
or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims.
See Palmer. P. Plowman.
Pil"grim, a. Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making
pilgrimages. "With pilgrim steps." Milton.
Pilgrim fathers, a name popularly given to the one hundred and two
English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first
settlement in New England at Plymouth in 1620. They were separatists
from the Church of England, and most of them had sojourned in Holland.
Pil"grim, v. i. To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] Grew. Carlyle.
Pil"grim*age (?), n. [OE. pilgrimage, pelgrinage; cf. F. pËlerinage.]
1. The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a
shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life. Shak.
The days of the years of my pilgrimage.
Gen. xlvii. 9.