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A kind of skull cap of felt.

The teredo.

icaria of Linnæus) whose tuberous roots have been used in poultices as a specific for the piles. Forsyth.

To take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by little. And not a year but pilfers as he goes Some youthful grace that age would gladly keep. Cowper.

One who pilfers; a petty thief.

Petty theft. -- Pil"fer*ing*ly, adv.

Petty theft. [R.] Sir T. North.

One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.

A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger. Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Heb. xi. 13.

The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life. Shak. The days of the years of my pilgrimage. Gen. xlvii. 9.

To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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.

Same as Mammalia.

Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair.

Resembling hairs or down.

Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.

The act of heaping up.

The peel or skin. [Obs.] "Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts." Holland.

The willet.

The act of pillaging; robbery. Shak.