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es considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge. Pug piling, sheet piles connected together at the edges by dovetailed tongues and grooves. -- Sheet piling, a series of piles made of planks or half logs driven edge to edge, -- used to form the walls of cofferdams, etc.

A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt. With pins of adamant And chains they made all fast. Milton.

oll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe. Mozley & W.

the point of contact of the pitch lines of two gears, or of a rack and pinion, which work together.

Consisting of strands twisted together in the ordinary way; as, a plain-laid rope. See Illust. of Cordage.

To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing. Planked shad, shad split open, fastened to a plank, and roasted before a wood fire.

, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster.

Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.

To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.

sant journey; pleasant weather. Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Ps. cxxxiii. 1.

The act or process of weaving together, or interweaving; that which is woven together. H. Brooke.

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 considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals. Pod auger, or pod bit, an auger or bit the channel of which is straight instead of twisted.

Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea).

A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress. Sir W. Scott.

To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic. Finally, it favors the poolingof all issues. U. S. Grant.

es from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy ho…

A ragout composed of different sorts of meats, vegetables, etc., cooked together.

A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge. [Written also potage.] Chaucer. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. Gen. xxv. 34.

A superintendent of a department who has control of its police establishment, together with extensive powers of municipal regulation. [France] Brande & C.