[Jacob] pilled white streaks . . . in the rods.
Gen. xxx. 37.
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 (?), 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.
Pill beetle (Zoˆl.), any small beetle of the genus Byrrhus, having a
rounded body, with the head concealed beneath the thorax. -- Pill bug
(Zoˆl.), any terrestrial isopod of the genus Armadillo, having the
habit of rolling itself into a ball when disturbed. Called also pill
wood louse.
Pil"lage (?), n. [F., fr. piller to plunder. See Pill to plunder.] 1.
The act of pillaging; robbery. Shak.
2. That which is taken from another or others by open force,
particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.
Which pillage they with merry march bring home.
Shak.
Syn. -- Plunder; rapine; spoil; depredation. -- Pillage, Plunder.
Pillage refers particularly to the act of stripping the sufferers of
their goods, while plunder refers to the removal of the things thus
taken; but the words are freely interchanged.
Pil"lage, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pillaged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pillaging
(?).] To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to
spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy.
Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city.
Arbuthnot.
Pil"lage, v. i. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
They were suffered to pillage wherever they went.
Macaulay.
Pil"la*ger (?), n. One who pillages. Pope.
Pil"lar (?), n. [OE. pilerF. pilier, LL. pilare, pilarium, pilarius,
fr. L. pila a pillar. See Pile a heap.] 1. The general and popular term
for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier,
column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a
superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament.
Jacob set a pillar upon her grave.
Gen. xxxv. 20.
The place . . . vast and proud, Supported by a hundred pillars
stood.
Dryden.
2. Figuratively, that which resembles such a pillar in appearance,
character, or office; a supporter or mainstay; as, the Pillars of
Hercules; a pillar of the state. "You are a well-deserving pillar."
Shak.
By day a cloud, by night a pillar of fire.
Milton.
3. (R. C. Ch.) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a
cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church. [Obs.] Skelton.
4. (Man.) The center of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which
a horse turns.
From pillar to post, hither and thither; to and fro; from one place or
predicament to another; backward and forward. [Colloq.] -- Pillar
saint. See Stylite. -- Pillars of the fauces. See Fauces, 1.
Pil"lar, a. (Mach.) Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead
of legs; as, a pillar drill.
Pil"lar-block` (?), n. See under Pillow.
Pil"lared (?), a. Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a
pillar, or pillars. "The pillared arches." Sir W. Scott. "Pillared
flame." Thomson.
Pil"lar*et (?), n. A little pillar. [R.] Fuller.
Pil"lar*ist, n. (Eccl. Hist.) See Stylite.
||Pil*lau" (?), n. [Per. & Turk. pilau.] An Oriental dish consisting of
||rice boiled with mutton, fat, or butter. [Written also pilau.]
Pilled (?), a. [See 3rd Pill.] Stripped of hair; scant of hair; bald.
[Obs.] "Pilled beard." Chaucer.
Pilled"-gar"lic (?), n. See Pilgarlic.