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A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage.

The act of pounding and bruising with a pestle in a mortar. Sir T. Browne.

A hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda, a zeolitic mineral commonly occurring in complex twin crystals, often cruciform in shape; -- called also christianite.

A pearly crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phillyrin.

A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of the Mediterranean, and breading a fruit resembling that of the olive.

A glucoside extracted from Phillyrea as a bitter white crystalline substance. It is sometimes used as a febrifuge.

A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century.

A pickle of various vegetables with pungent species, -- originally made in the East Indies.

The peel or skin. [Obs.] "Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts." Holland.

The willet.

The act of pillaging; robbery. Shak.

One who pillages. Pope.

t 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 pillars stood. Dryden.

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.