Pika (n.) Any one of several species of rodents of the genus Lagomys, resembling small tailless rabbits. They inhabit the high mountains of Asia and America. Called also calling hare, and crying hare. See Chief hare.
Pike (n. & v.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.
Pike (n. & v.) A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target.
Pike (n. & v.) A hayfork.
Pike (n. & v.) A pick.
Pike (n. & v.) A pointed or peaked hill.
Pike (n. & v.) A large haycock.
Pike (n. & v.) A turnpike; a toll bar.
Pike (sing. & pl.) A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack.
Piked (a.) Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed.
Pike-devant (n.) A pointed beard.
Pikelet (n.) Alt. of Pikelin
Pikelin (n.) A light, thin cake or muffin.
Pikeman (pl. ) of Pikeman
Pikeman (n.) A soldier armed with a pike.
Pikeman (n.) A miner who works with a pick.
Pikeman (n.) A keeper of a turnpike gate.
Pikestaff (n.) The staff, or shaft, of a pike.
Pikestaff (n.) A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping.
Piketail (n.) See Pintail, 1.
Pikrolite (n.) See Picrolite.
Pilage (n.) See Pelage.
Pilaster (n.) An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less.
Pilastered (a.) Furnished with pilasters.
Pilau (n.) See Pillau.
Pilch (n.) A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur.
Pilchard (n.) A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England.
Pilcher (n.) A scabbard, as of a sword.
Pilcher (n.) The pilchard.
Pilcrow (n.) a paragraph mark, /.
Pile (n.) A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
Pile (n.) A covering of hair or fur.
Pile (n.) The head of an arrow or spear.
Pile (n.) A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
Pile (n.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
Pile (v. t.) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
Pile (n.) A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.
Pile (n.) A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
Pile (n.) A funeral pile; a pyre.
Pile (n.) A large building, or mass of buildings.
Pile (n.) Same as Fagot, n., 2.
Pile (n.) A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
Pile (n.) The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.
Piled (imp. & p. p.) of Pile
Piling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pile
Pile (v. t.) To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; -- often with up; as, to pile up wood.
Pile (v. t.) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
Pileate (a.) Alt. of Pileated
Pileated (a.) Having the form of a cap for the head.
Pileated (a.) Having a crest covering the pileus, or whole top of the head.
Piled (a.) Having a pile or point; pointed.
Piled (a.) Having a pile or nap.
Piled (a.) Formed from a pile or fagot; as, piled iron.
Pileiform (a.) Having the form of a pileus or cap; pileate.
Pilement (n.) An accumulation; a heap.
Pilenta (pl. ) of Pilentum
Pilentum (n.) An easy chariot or carriage, used by Roman ladies, and in which the vessels, etc., for sacred rites were carried.
Pilorhizae (pl. ) of Pileorhiza
Pileorhiza (n.) A cap of cells which covers the growing extremity of a root; a rootcap.
Pileous (a.) Consisting of, or covered with, hair; hairy; pilose.
Piler (n.) One who places things in a pile.
Piles (n. pl.) The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids. [The singular pile is sometimes used.]
Pilei (pl. ) of Pileus
Pileus (n.) A kind of skull cap of felt.
Pileus (n.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.
Pileus (n.) The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.
Pileworm (n.) The teredo.
Pile-worn (a.) Having the pile worn off; threadbare.
Pilewort (n.) A plant (Ranunculus Ficaria of Linnaeus) whose tuberous roots have been used in poultices as a specific for the piles.
Pilfered (imp. & p. p.) of Pilfer
Pilfering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pilfer
Pilfer (v. i.) To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft.
Pilfer (v. t.) To take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by little.
Pilferer (n.) One who pilfers; a petty thief.
Pilfering (a.) Thieving in a small way.
Pilfering (n.) Petty theft.
Pilfery (n.) Petty theft.
Pilgarlic (n.) One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.
Pilgrim (n.) A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
Pilgrim (n.) 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.
Pilgrim (a.) Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.
Pilgrim (v. i.) To journey; to wander; to ramble.
Pilgrimage (n.) The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.
Pilgrimage (n.) A tedious and wearisome time.
Pilgrimize (v. i.) To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage.
Pildia (pl. ) of Pilidium
Pilidium (n.) The free-swimming, hat-shaped larva of certain nemertean worms. It has no resemblance to its parent, and the young worm develops in its interior.
Pilifera (n. pl.) Same as Mammalia.
Piliferous (a.) Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair.
Piliferous (a.) Beset with hairs.
Piliform (a.) Resembling hairs or down.
Piligerous (a.) Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.
Piling (n.) The act of heaping up.
Piling (n.) The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.
Piling (n.) A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge.
Pill (n.) The peel or skin.
Pill (v. i.) To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
Pill (v. t.) To deprive of hair; to make bald.
Pill (v. t.) To peel; to make by removing the skin.
Pilled (imp. & p. p.) of Pill