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One who pillages. Pope.

e 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…

See under Pillow.

Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars. "The pillared arches." Sir W. Scott. "Pillared flame." Thomson.

A little pillar. [R.] Fuller.

See Stylite.

An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, fat, or butter. [Written also pilau.]

Stripped of hair; scant of hair; bald. [Obs.] "Pilled beard." Chaucer.

See Pilgarlic.

One who pills or plunders. [Obs.]

Plunder; pillage. [Obs.] Daniel.

cushion put on behind a man's saddle, on which a woman may ride. His [a soldier's] shank pillion without stirrups. Spenser.

To set in, or punish with, the pillory; to pillory. [R.]

To set in, or punish with, the pillory. "Hungering for Puritans to pillory." Macaulay.

se filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material. [Resty sloth] finds the down pillow hard. Shak.

Lace made by hand with bobbins on a pillow.

A removable case or covering for a pillow, usually of white linen or cotton cloth.

Provided with a pillow or pillows; having the head resting on, or as on, a pillow. Pillowedon buckler cold and hard. Sir W. Scott.

Like a pillow. Keats.

Any myriapod of the genus Iulus and allied genera which rolls up spirally; a galleyworm. See Illust. under Myriapod.