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Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.

To deprive of hair; to make bald. [Obs.]

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

he head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material. [Resty sloth] finds the down pillow hard. Shak.

Hairy; full of, or made of, hair. The heat-retaining property of the pilose covering. Owen.

The quality or state of being pilose; hairiness. Bacon.

To twist or twine, as hair in making fishing lines.

A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. Polish plait. (Med.) Same as Plica.

A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses. See Mortar.

Work done by platting or braiding; a plait. Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. Shak.

A disease of the hair (Plica polonica), in which it becomes twisted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is hence called also Polish plait. Dunglison.

A mixture of hair and tar for covering the bottom of a ship.

twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes. I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. Milton. E'en children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile. Goldsmith.

A hairdresser's powder puff; also, the act of using it. [Scot.]

A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers. His high plume, that nodded o'er his head. Dryden.

Having hairs, or other párts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles.

To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once."Dulcissa plumps into a chair." Spectator.

Having hairs branching out laterally, like the parts of a feather.

Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc.

ee Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers.