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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.

ot 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.

One who pills or plunders. [Obs.]

Plunder; pillage. [Obs.] Daniel.

cushion put on behind a man's saddle, on which a woman may ride. His [a soldier's] shank pillion without stirrups. Spenser.

To set in, or punish with, the pillory; to pillory. [R.]

To set in, or punish with, the pillory. "Hungering for Puritans to pillory." Macaulay.

se filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material. [Resty sloth] finds the down pillow hard. Shak.

Lace made by hand with bobbins on a pillow.

A removable case or covering for a pillow, usually of white linen or cotton cloth.