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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.

Any plant of the genus Pilularia; minute aquatic cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; -- sometimes called peppergrass.

Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.

Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.

A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.

A filament. [R.]

The quality of being capillary.

The quality or condition of being capillary.

nute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.

A capillary blood vessel. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair. Clarke.

In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs.

Having much hair; hairy. [R.]

nly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being…

The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.

Pert. to, or caused by, electro-capillarity.

The state of being, or the act of making, stony.

Volcanic ashes, consisting of small, angular, stony fragments or particles.