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Like a pill; small; insignificant. [R.] G. Eliot.

A pillow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Like pile or wool.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in galipot, and isomeric with abietic acid.

d from certain fatty substances, and subsequently shown to be a mixture of suberic and adipic acids.

An apple-green mineral having a greasy feel. It is a hydrous silicate of nickel, magnesia, aluminia, and iron.

Wine flavored with spice or honey. See Pigment, 3. [Obs.]

Same as Pimento.

Allspice; -- applied both to the tree and its fruit. See Allspice.

The Spanish sweet pepper, the fruit of which is used as a vegetable, to stuff olives, etc.

The friar bird.

An olive stuffed with a kind of sweet red pepper, or pimiento.

One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander. Swift.

etimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather. Water pimpernel. (Bot.) See Brookweed.

A West Indian name for the prickly pear (Opuntia); -- called also pimploes.

The burnet saxifrage. See under Saxifrage.

Little; petty; pitiful. [Obs.] Crabbe.

ted elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not. "All eyes can see a pimple on her nose." Pope.

Having pimples. Johnson.

Pimpled.