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y valued in the East Indies as a medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and various other diseases.

A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.

s of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App.

A thermoelectric battery; a thermopile.

Same as Thermopile.

One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.

ed by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like.

A weaver's cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet.

A silk fabric formerly in use, having a nap or pile. [Written also tuft-taffeta.]

A kind of fungus with an irregularly wrinkled, somewhat globular pileus (Helvella, or Gyromitra, esculenta.).

rpet, a superior kind of carpet made in Asia Minor and adjoining countries, having a deep pile and composed of pure wool with a weft of different material. It is distinguishable by its coloring and patterns from similar carpets made in India and elsewhere. -- Turkey oak. (Bot.) See Cerris. -- Turkey red. (a) A brilli…

Piled up; accumulated. God, which shall repay all with upheaped measure. Udall.

more vain oblations. Isa. i. 13. Vain is the force of man To crush the pillars which the pile sustain. Dryden.

A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.

One of many textile fabrics having a pile like that of velvet.

bric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back.

Fine hairs on plants, resembling the pile of velvet.

A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position. Knight.

A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.

d to that of a weasel. Called also weasel duck. -- Weasel lemur, a short-tailed lemur (Lepilemur mustelinus). It is reddish brown above, grayish brown below, with the throat white.