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A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile. [Now Low or Humorous] A vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations. Bp. Burnet. I have noticed a heap of things in my life. R. L. Stevenson.

One who heaps, piles, or amasses.

the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods. [The sing. hemorrhoid is rarely used.]

Filled with hommocks; piled in the form of hommocks; -- said of ice.

A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field.

A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology. Busby.

A writer or compiler of, or a commentator on, institutes. [R.] Harvey.

Internal; inward; -- opposed to external. Epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcers. Milton.

gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin.

A pile of rocks; sometimes, the solid rock. See Cairn.

hanism for producing light by electricity. See Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent. Æolipile lamp, a hollow ball of copper containing alcohol which is converted into vapor by a lamp beneath, so as to make a powerful blowpipe flame when the vapor is ignited. Weale. -- Arc lamp (Elec.), a form of lamp in which the vol…

- applied in medicine to doubtful cases of some diseases; as, larvate pneumonis; larvate epilepsy.

The author or compiler of a lexicon or dictionary. Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach; and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. Johnson.

government or its laws. -- Liberty bell. See under Bell. -- Liberty cap. (a) The Roman pileus which was given to a slave at his manumission. (b) A limp, close-fitting cap with which the head of representations of the goddess of liberty is often decked. It is sometimes represented on a spear or a liberty pole. -- Li…

The pileated woodpecker.

deur or splendor; splendid' pompous. When Rome's exalted beauties I descry Magnificent in piles of ruin lie. Addison.

The weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very heavy mass of iron, which, being raised on high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.

A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.

orthodox Mohammedan. [Written also muslim.] "Heaps of slaughtered Moslem." Macaulay. They piled the ground with Moslem slain. Halleck.

To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.