Pill"er*y (?), n.; pl. Pilleries (&?;). Plunder; pillage. [Obs.]
Daniel.
Pil"lion (?), n. [Ir. pillin, pilliun (akin to Gael. pillean, pillin),
fr. Ir. & Gael. pill, peall, a skin or hide, prob. fr. L. pellis. See
Pell, n., Fell skin.] A panel or cushion saddle; the under pad or
cushion of saddle; esp., a pad or cushion put on behind a man's saddle,
on which a woman may ride.
His [a soldier's] shank pillion without stirrups.
Spenser.
Pil"lo*rize (?), v. t. To set in, or punish with, the pillory; to
pillory. [R.]
Pil"lo*ry (?), n.; pl. Pillories (#). [F. pilori; cf. Pr. espitlori,
LL. piloricum, pilloricum, pellericum, pellorium, pilorium, spilorium;
perhaps from a derivative of L. speculari to look around, observe. Cf.
Speculate.] A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having
holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as
to be exposed in front of it. Shak.
Pil"lo*ry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pilloried (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Pillorying.] [Cf. F. pilorier.] 1. To set in, or punish with, the
pillory. "Hungering for Puritans to pillory." Macaulay.