Pil"i*form (?), a. [L. pilus hair + -form.] (Bot.) Resembling hairs or
down.
Pi*lig"er*ous (?), a. [L. pilus hair + -gerous: cf. F. piligËre.]
Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.
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.
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 (?), 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, v. i. To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
Pill, v. t. [Cf. L. pilare to deprive of hair, and E. pill, n.
(above).] 1. To deprive of hair; to make bald. [Obs.]