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Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad. "Piacular pollution." De Quincey.

The quality or state of being piacular; criminality; wickedness. De Quincey.

The 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 hundr…

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.

Of or pertaining to pills; resembling a pill or pills; as, a pilular mass.

Plane or flat on one side, and spherical on the other.

Relating to a plumule.

Any hydroid belonging to Plumularia and other genera of the family Plumularidæ. They generally grow in plumelike forms.

Any Plumularia. Also used adjectively.

having several divisions containing seeds; as, the lemon and the orange are plurilocular fruits. Plurilocular sporangia (Bot.), many-celled sporangia, each cell containing a single spore, as in many algæ.

of the earth, or of a sphere; situated near, or proceeding from, one of the poles; as, polar regions; polar seas; polar winds.

See Polyarchy.

See Polar. [R.]

In a polary manner; with polarity. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray.

The art or process of measuring the polarization of light.

The polestar. See North star, under North.