Lace pillow, a cushion used in making hand- wrought lace. -- Pillow
bier [OE. pilwebere; cf. LG. b¸re a pillowcase], a pillowcase; pillow
slip. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Pillow block (Mach.), a block, or standard,
for supporting a journal, as of a shaft. It is usually bolted to the
frame or foundation of a machine, and is often furnished with journal
boxes, and a movable cover, or cap, for tightening the bearings by
means of bolts; -- called also pillar block, or plumber block. --
Pillow lace, handmade lace wrought with bobbins upon a lace pillow. --
Pillow of a plow, a crosspiece of wood which serves to raise or lower
the beam. -- Pillow sham, an ornamental covering laid over a pillow
when not in use. -- Pillow slip, a pillowcase.
Pil"low (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pillowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Pillowing.] To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support; as,
to pillow the head.
Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.
Milton.
Pil"low*case` (?), n. A removable case or covering for a pillow,
usually of white linen or cotton cloth.
Pil"lowed (?), a. Provided with a pillow or pillows; having the head
resting on, or as on, a pillow.
Pillowedon buckler cold and hard.
Sir W. Scott.
Pil"low*y (?), a. Like a pillow. Keats.
Pill"-wil`let (?), n. [So named from its note.] (Zoˆl.) The willet.
Pill"worm` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) Any myriapod of the genus Iulus and allied
genera which rolls up spirally; a galleyworm. See Illust. under
Myriapod.
Pill"wort` (?), n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Pilularia; minute
aquatic cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; -- sometimes called
peppergrass.
Pi`lo*car"pine (?), n. [From NL. Pilocarpus pennatifolius jaborandi; L.
pilus hair + Gr. karpo`s fruit: cf. F. pilocarpine.] (Chem.) An
alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white
amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the
vasomotor system.
Pi*lose" (?), a. [L. pilosus, fr. pilus hair. See Pile.] 1. Hairy; full
of, or made of, hair.
The heat-retaining property of the pilose covering.
Owen.