PIETY — PIN-FETHER

PIETY — PIN-FETHER NWAD PIETY.1

PIETY, n. [L. pietas, from pius, or its root, probably a contracted word.] NWAD PIETY.1

1. Piety in principle, is a compound of veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being and love of his character, or veneration accompanied with love; and piety in practice, is the exercise of these affections in obedience to his will and devotion to his service. NWAD PIETY.2

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. NWAD PIETY.3

2. Reverence of parents or friends, accompanied with affection and devotion to their honor and happiness. NWAD PIETY.4

PIEZOMETER, n. [Gr. to press, and measure.] An instrument for ascertaining the compressibility of water, and the degree of such compressibility under any given weight. NWAD PIEZOMETER.1

PIG, n. NWAD PIG.1

1. The young of swine, male or female. NWAD PIG.2

2. An oblong mass of unforged iron, lead or other metal. A pig of lead is the eighth of a fother, or 250 pounds. NWAD PIG.3

PIG, v.t. or i. To bring forth pigs. NWAD PIG.4

PIGEON, n. A fowl of the genus Columba, of several species, as the stock dove, the ring dove, the turtle dove, and the migratory or wild pigeon of America. The domestic pigeon breeds in a box, often attached to a building, called a dovecot or pigeon-house. The wild pigeon builds a nest on a tree in the forest. NWAD PIGEON.1

PIGEON-FOOT, n. A plant. NWAD PIGEON-FOOT.1

PIGEON-HEARTED, a. Timid; easily frightened. NWAD PIGEON-HEARTED.1

PIGEON-HOLE, n. A little apartment or division in a case for papers. NWAD PIGEON-HOLE.1

PIGEON-HOLES, n. An old English game in which balls were rolled through little cavities or arches. NWAD PIGEON-HOLES.1

PIGEON-LIVERED, a. Mild in temper; soft; gentle. NWAD PIGEON-LIVERED.1

PIGEON-PEA, ANGOLA-PEA, n. A plant of the genus Cytisus. NWAD PIGEON-PEA.1

PIGGIN, n. A small wooden vessel with an erect handle, used as a dipper. NWAD PIGGIN.1

PIGHEADED, a. Having a large head; stupid. NWAD PIGHEADED.1

PIGHT, pp. pite. Pitched; fixed; determined. NWAD PIGHT.1

PIGHT, v.t. To pierce. NWAD PIGHT.2

PIGHTEL, n. A little inclosure. [Local.] NWAD PIGHTEL.1

PIGMEAN, a. [from pigmy.] Very small; like a pigmy; as an image of pigmean size. NWAD PIGMEAN.1

PIGMENT, n. [L. pigmentum, from the root of pingo, to paint.] NWAD PIGMENT.1

Paint; a preparation used by painters, dyers, etc. to impart colors to bodies. NWAD PIGMENT.2

PIGMY, n. [L. pygmoeus; Gr. the fist.] A dwarf; a person of very small stature; a name applied to a fabled nation said to have been devoured by cranes. NWAD PIGMY.1

PIGMY, a. Very small in size; mean; feeble; inconsiderable. NWAD PIGMY.2

PIGNORATION, n. [L. pignero, to pledge.] The act of pledging or pawning. NWAD PIGNORATION.1

PIGNORATIVE, a. Pledging; pawning. [Little used.] NWAD PIGNORATIVE.1

PIGNUT, n. [pig and nut.] The ground nut, a plant of the genus Bunium; also, a tree and its fruit of the genus Juglans. NWAD PIGNUT.1

PIGSNEY, n. A word of endearment to a girl. [Little used.] NWAD PIGSNEY.1

PIGTAIL, n. [pig and tail.] A cue; the hair of the head tied in the form of a pig’s tail. NWAD PIGTAIL.1

1. A small roll of tobacco. NWAD PIGTAIL.2

PIGWIDGEON, n. [pig and widgeon.] A fairy; a cant word for any thing very small. NWAD PIGWIDGEON.1

PIKE, n. [This word belongs to a numerous family of words expressing something pointed, or a sharp point, or as verbs, to dart, to thrust, to prick.] NWAD PIKE.1

1. A military weapon consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a flat steel head pointed; called the spear. This weapon was formerly used by infantry, but its use is now limited to officers, and it is called a sponton or spontoon. Its use among soldiers is superseded by the bayonet. NWAD PIKE.2

2. A fork used in husbandry; but we now use fork or pitchfork. NWAD PIKE.3

3. Among turners, the iron sprigs used to fasten any thing to be turned. NWAD PIKE.4

4. In ichthyology, a fish of the genus Esox, so named from its long shape or from the form of its snout. It is a fresh water fish, living in deep water and very voracious, but very palatable food. NWAD PIKE.5

The pike, the tyrant of the flood. NWAD PIKE.6

PIKED, a. Ending in a point; acuminated. NWAD PIKED.1

PIKEMAN, n. A soldier armed with a pike. NWAD PIKEMAN.1

PIKESTAFF, n. The staff or shaft of a pike. NWAD PIKESTAFF.1

PIKROLITE, n. [Gr. bitter, and a stone.] A mineral found at Taberg, in Sweden, supposed to be a variety of serpentine. NWAD PIKROLITE.1

PILASTER, n. A square column, sometimes insulated; but usually pilasters are set within a wall, projecting only one quarter of their diameter. Their bases, capitals and entablatures have the same parts as those of columns. NWAD PILASTER.1

PILCH, n. [L. pellis, a skin.] A furred gown or case; something lined with fur. [Not used.] NWAD PILCH.1

PILCHARD, n. A fish resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder; the nose is shorter and turns up; the under jaw is shorter; the back more elevated, and the belly less sharp. These fishes appear on the Cornish coast in England, about the middle of July, in immense numbers, and furnish a considerable article of commerce. NWAD PILCHARD.1

PILE, n. [L. pila.] NWAD PILE.1

1. A heap; a mass or collection of things in a roundish or elevated form; as a pile of stones; a pile of bricks; a pile of wood or timber; a pile of ruins. NWAD PILE.2

2. A collection of combustibles for burning a dead body; as a funeral pile. NWAD PILE.3

3. A large building or mass of buildings; an edifice. NWAD PILE.4

The pile o’erlook’d the town and drew the sight. NWAD PILE.5

4. A heap of balls or shot laid in horizontal courses, rising into a pyramidical form. NWAD PILE.6

PILE, n. [L. palus.] NWAD PILE.7

1. A large stake or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building or other superstructure. The stadthouse in Amsterdam is supported by piles. NWAD PILE.8

2. One side of a coin; originally, a punch or puncheon used in stamping figures on coins, and containing the figures to be impressed. Hence the arms-side of a coin is called the pile, and the head the cross, which was formerly in the place of the head. Hence cross and pile. NWAD PILE.9

3. In heraldry, an ordinary in form of a point inverted or a stake sharpened. NWAD PILE.10

PILE, n. [L. pilum.] The head of an arrow. NWAD PILE.11

PILE, n. [L. pilus.] Properly, a hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton and the like; hence, the nap, the fine hairy substance of the surface of cloth. NWAD PILE.12

PILE, v.t. To lay or throw into a heap; to collect many things into a mass; as, to pile wood or stones. NWAD PILE.13

1. To bring into an aggregate; to accumulate; as, to pile quotations or comments. NWAD PILE.14

2. To fill with something heaped. NWAD PILE.15

3. To fill above the brim or top. NWAD PILE.16

4. To break off the awns of threshed barley. [Local.] NWAD PILE.17

PILEATE, PILEATED, a. [L. pileus, a cap.] Having the form of a cap or cover for the head. NWAD PILEATE.1

PILEMENT, n. An accumulation. [Not used.] NWAD PILEMENT.1

PILER, n. [from pile, a heap.] One who piles or forms a heap. NWAD PILER.1

PILES, n. plu. The hemorrhoids, a disease. NWAD PILES.1

PILEWORM, n. A worm found in piles in Holland. NWAD PILEWORM.1

PILEWORT, n. A plant of the genus Ranunculus. NWAD PILEWORT.1

PILFER, v.i. To steal in small quantities; to practice petty theft; as a boy accustomed to pilfer. NWAD PILFER.1

A pilfering hand. NWAD PILFER.2

PILFER, v.t. To steal or gain by petty theft; to filch. NWAD PILFER.3

He would not pilfer the victory, and the defeat was easy. NWAD PILFER.4

PILFERED, pp. Stolen in small parcels. NWAD PILFERED.1

PILFERER, n. One that pilfers or practices petty theft. NWAD PILFERER.1

PILFERING, pp. Stealing; practicing petty thefts. NWAD PILFERING.1

PILFERING, n. Petty theft. NWAD PILFERING.2

Pilfering was so universal in all the South sea islands, that it was hardly recognized in the moral code of the natives as an offense, much less a crime. NWAD PILFERING.3

PILFERINGLY, adv. With petty theft; filchingly. NWAD PILFERINGLY.1

PIL-GARLICK, PILLED-GARLICK, n. [pilled, peeled, and garlick.] One who has lost his hair by disease; a poor forsaken wretch. NWAD PIL-GARLICK.1

PILGRIM, n. [L. peregrinus. Gu. L. peragro, to wander, palor.] NWAD PILGRIM.1

1. A wanderer; a traveler; particularly, one that travels to a distance from his own country to visit a holy place, or to pay his devotion to the remains of dead saints. [See Pilgrimage.] NWAD PILGRIM.2

2. In Scripture, one that has only a temporary residence on earth. Hebrews 11:13. NWAD PILGRIM.3

PILGRIM, v.i. To wander or ramble. [Not used.] NWAD PILGRIM.4

PILGRIMAGE, n. A long journey, particularly a journey to some place deemed sacred and venerable, in order to pay devotion to the relics of some deceased saint. Thus in the middle ages, kings, princes, bishops and others made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, in pious devotion to the Savior. Pilgrims now resort to Loretto, in Italy, to visit the chamber of the blessed virgin, and the Mohammedans make pilgrimages to Mecca, where their prophet was buried. NWAD PILGRIMAGE.1

1. In Scripture, the journey of human life. Genesis 47:9. NWAD PILGRIMAGE.2

2. Time irksomely spent. NWAD PILGRIMAGE.3

PILGRIMIZE, v.i. To wander about as a pilgrim. [Not used.] NWAD PILGRIMIZE.1

PILL, n. [L. pila, a ball; pilula, a little ball.] NWAD PILL.1

1. In pharmacy, a medicine in the form of a little ball or small round mass, to be swallowed whole. NWAD PILL.2

2. Any thing nauseous. NWAD PILL.3

PILL, v.t. To rob; to plunder; to pillage, that is, to peel, to strip. [See Peel, the same word in the proper English orthography.] NWAD PILL.4

PILL, v.i. To be peeled; to come off in flakes. NWAD PILL.5

1. To rob. [See Peel.] NWAD PILL.6

PILLAGE, n. NWAD PILLAGE.1

1. Plunder; spoil; that which is taken from another by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war. NWAD PILLAGE.2

2. The act of plundering. NWAD PILLAGE.3

3. In architecture, a square pillar behind a column to bear up the arches. NWAD PILLAGE.4

PILLAGE, v.t. To strip of money or goods by open violence; as, troops pillage the camp or towns of an enemy; to plunder; to spoil. It differs from stealing, as it implies open violence, and from robbery, which may be committed by one individual on another; whereas pillaging is usually the act of bands or numbers. To pillage and to rob are however sometimes used synonymously. NWAD PILLAGE.5

PILLAGED, pp. Plundered by open force. NWAD PILLAGED.1

PILLAGER, n. One that plunders by open violence; a plunderer. NWAD PILLAGER.1

PILLAGING, ppr. Plundering; stripping. NWAD PILLAGING.1

PILLAR, n. [L. pila, a pile, a pillar, a mortar and pestle. The L. pila denotes a heap, or things thrown, put or driven together.] NWAD PILLAR.1

Literally, a pile or heap; hence, NWAD PILLAR.2

1. A kind or irregular column round an insulate, but deviating from the proportions of a just column. Pillars are either too massive or too slender for regular architecture; they are not restricted to any rules, and their parts and proportions are arbitrary. A square pillar is a massive work, called also a pier or piedroit, serving to support arches. etc. NWAD PILLAR.3

2. A supporter; that which sustains or upholds; that on which some superstructure rests. Galatians 2:9. NWAD PILLAR.4

3. A monument raised to commemorate any person or remarkable transaction. NWAD PILLAR.5

And Jacob set a pillar on her grave. Genesis 35:20; 2 Samuel 18:18. NWAD PILLAR.6

4. Something resembling a pillar; as a pillar of salt. Genesis 19:26. NWAD PILLAR.7

So a pillar of a cloud, a pillar of fire. Exodus 13:21-22. NWAD PILLAR.8

5. Foundation; support. Job 9:6. NWAD PILLAR.9

6. In ships, a square or round timber fixed perpendicularly under the middle of the beams for supporting the decks. NWAD PILLAR.10

7. In the manege, the center of the volta, ring or manege ground, around which a horse turns. There are also pillars on the circumference or side, placed at certain distances by two and two. NWAD PILLAR.11

PILLARED, a. Supported by pillars. NWAD PILLARED.1

1. Having the form of a pillar. NWAD PILLARED.2

PILLER, n. One that pills or plunders. [Not used.] NWAD PILLER.1

PILLERY, n. Plunder; pillage; rapine. [Not in use.] NWAD PILLERY.1

PILLION, n. pil’yun, [L. pilus, hair, or from stuffing. See Pillow.] NWAD PILLION.1

1. A cushion for a woman to ride on behind a person on horseback. NWAD PILLION.2

2. A pad; a pannel; a low saddle. NWAD PILLION.3

3. The pad of a saddle that rests on the horse’s back. NWAD PILLION.4

PILLORIED, a. Put in a pillory. NWAD PILLORIED.1

PILLORY, n. [L. palus, a stake, a pile.] A frame of wood erected on posts, with movable boards and holes, through which are put the head and hands of a criminal for punishment. NWAD PILLORY.1

PILLORY, v.t. To punish with the pillory. NWAD PILLORY.2

PILLOW, n. [L. pulvinar; from L. pilus, hair, or from stuffing.] NWAD PILLOW.1

1. A long cushion to support the head of a person when reposing on a bed; a sack or case filled with feathers, down or other soft material. NWAD PILLOW.2

2. In a ship, the block on which the inner end of a bowsprit is supported. NWAD PILLOW.3

The pillow of a plow, is a cross piece of wood which serves to raise or lower the beam. NWAD PILLOW.4

PILLOW, v.t. To rest or lay on for support. NWAD PILLOW.5

PILLOW-BIER, PILLOW-CASE, n. The case or sack of a pillow which contains the feathers. Pillow-bier is the pillow-bearer. NWAD PILLOW-BIER.1

PILLOWED, pp. or a. Supported by a pillow. NWAD PILLOWED.1

PILLOWING, ppr. Resting or laying on a pillow. NWAD PILLOWING.1

PILOSE, PILOUS, a. [L. pilosus, from pilus, hair.] Hairy. A pilose leaf, in botany, is one covered with long distinct hairs. A pilose receptacle has hairs between the florets. NWAD PILOSE.1

PILOSITY, n. [supra.] Hairiness. NWAD PILOSITY.1

PILOT, n. NWAD PILOT.1

1. One who steers a ship in a dangerous navigation, or rather one whose office or occupation is to steer ships, particularly along a coast, or into and out of a harbor, bay or river, where navigation is dangerous. NWAD PILOT.2

2. A guide; a director of the course of another person. [In colloquial use.] NWAD PILOT.3

PILOT, v.t. To direct the course of a ship in any place where navigation is dangerous. NWAD PILOT.4

PILOTAGE, n. The compensation made or allowed to one who directs the course of a ship. NWAD PILOTAGE.1

1. The pilot’s skill or knowledge of coasts, rocks, bars and channels. [Not now used.] NWAD PILOTAGE.2

PILOT-FISH, n. A fish, a species of Gasterosteus, called also rudder-fish, of an oblong shape; so named because it often accompanies ships. NWAD PILOT-FISH.1

PILOTING, ppr. Steering; as a ship in dangerous navigation. NWAD PILOTING.1

PILOTING, n. The act of steering a ship. NWAD PILOTING.2

PILOTISM, PILOTRY, n. Pilotage; skill in piloting. [Not used.] NWAD PILOTISM.1

PILOUS, a. [L. pilosus. See Pilose.] Hairy; abounding with hair. NWAD PILOUS.1

1. Consisting of hair. NWAD PILOUS.2

PILSER, n. The moth or fly that runs into a flame. NWAD PILSER.1

PIMELITE, n. [Gr. fat, and stone.] A terrene substance of an apple green color, fat and unctuous to the touch, tender and not fusible by the blowpipe. It is supposed to be colored by nickel. It is a variety of steatite. NWAD PIMELITE.1

PIMENT, n. Wine with a mixture of spice or honey. NWAD PIMENT.1

PIMENTO, n. Jamaica pepper, popularly called allspice. The tree producing this spice is of the genus Myrtus, and grows spontaneously in Jamaica in great abundance. NWAD PIMENTO.1

PIMP, n. A man who provides gratifications for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander. NWAD PIMP.1

PIMP, v.i. To pander; to procure lewd women for the gratification of others. NWAD PIMP.2

PIMPERNEL, PIMPINEL, n. [L. pimpinella.] The name of several plants of different genera. The scarlet pimpernel is of the genus Anagallis, the water pimpernel of the genus Veronica, and the yellow pimpernel of the genus Lysimachia. NWAD PIMPERNEL.1

PIMPILLO, n. A plant of the genus Cactus. NWAD PIMPILLO.1

PIMPINELLA, n. A genus of plants, including the burnet saxifrage and the anise. NWAD PIMPINELLA.1

PIMPING, ppr. Pandering; procuring lewd women for others. NWAD PIMPING.1

PIMPING, a. Little; petty. NWAD PIMPING.2

PIMPLE, n. A small pustule on the face or other part of the body, usually a red pustule. NWAD PIMPLE.1

PIMPLED, a. Having red pustules on the skin; full of pimples. NWAD PIMPLED.1

PIMPLIKE, a. Like a pimp; vile; infamous; mean. NWAD PIMPLIKE.1

PIN, n. [L. penna, pinna.] NWAD PIN.1

1. A small pointed instrument made of brass wire and headed; used chiefly by females for fastening their clothes. NWAD PIN.2

2. A piece of wood or metal sharpened or pointed, used to fasten together boards, plank or other timber. The larger pins of metal are usually called bolts, and the wooden pins used in ship building are called treenails [trunnels.] A small wooden pin is called a peg. NWAD PIN.3

3. A thing of little value. It is not a pin’s matter. I care not a pin. NWAD PIN.4

4. A linchpin. NWAD PIN.5

5. The central part. NWAD PIN.6

6. A peg used in musical instruments in straining and relaxing the strings. NWAD PIN.7

7. A note or strain. NWAD PIN.8

8. A horny induration of the membranes of the eye. NWAD PIN.9

9. A cylindrical roller made of wood. NWAD PIN.10

10. A noxious humor in a hawk’s foot. NWAD PIN.11

11. The pin of a block is the axis of the sheave. NWAD PIN.12

PIN, v.t. To fasten with a pin or with pins of any kind; as, to pin the clothes; to pin boards or timbers. NWAD PIN.13

1. To fasten; to make fast; or to join and fasten together. NWAD PIN.14

Our gates--we have but pinned with rushes. NWAD PIN.15

She lifted the princess from the earth, and so locks her in embracing, as if she would pin her to her heart. NWAD PIN.16

2. To inclose; to confine. [See the verbs Pen and Pound.] NWAD PIN.17

PINASTER, n. [L. See Pine.] The wild pine. NWAD PINASTER.1

PINCASE, n. A case for holding pins. NWAD PINCASE.1

PINCERS, an erroneous orthography of pinchers, which see. NWAD PINCERS.1

PINCH, v.t. NWAD PINCH.1

1. To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, the teeth, claws, or with an instrument, etc. NWAD PINCH.2

2. To squeeze or compress between any two hard bodies. NWAD PINCH.3

3. To squeeze the flesh till it is pained or livid. NWAD PINCH.4

4. To gripe; to straiten; to oppress with want; as, to pinch a nation; to pinch the belly; to be pinched for want of food. NWAD PINCH.5

5. To pain by constriction; to distress; as pinching cold. The winter pinches. NWAD PINCH.6

6. To press; to straiten by difficulties; as, the argument pinches the objector. NWAD PINCH.7

The respondent is pinched with a strong objection. NWAD PINCH.8

7. To press hard; to try thoroughly. NWAD PINCH.9

PINCH, v.i. To act with pressing force; to bear hard; to be puzzling. You see where the reasons pinch. NWAD PINCH.10

1. To spare; to be straitened; to be covetous. NWAD PINCH.11

The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare, NWAD PINCH.12

Starve, steal and pilfer to enrich an heir. NWAD PINCH.13

PINCH, n. A close compression with the ends of the fingers. NWAD PINCH.14

1. A gripe; a pang. NWAD PINCH.15

2. Distress inflected or suffered; pressure; oppression; as necessity’s sharp pinch. NWAD PINCH.16

3. Straits; difficulty; time of distress from want. NWAD PINCH.17

PINCHBECK, n. [said to be from the name of the inventor.] NWAD PINCHBECK.1

An alloy of copper; a mixture of copper and zink, consisting of three or four parts of copper with one of zink. NWAD PINCHBECK.2

PINCHER, n. He or that which pinches. NWAD PINCHER.1

PINCHERS, n. plu. [from pinch, not from the French pincette.] NWAD PINCHERS.1

An instrument for drawing nails from boards and the like, or for griping things to be held fast. NWAD PINCHERS.2

PINCHFIST, PINCHPENNY, n. A miser; a niggard. NWAD PINCHFIST.1

PINCUSHION, n. A small case stuffed with some soft material, in which females stick pins for safety and preservation. NWAD PINCUSHION.1

PINDARIC, a. After the style and manner of Pindar. NWAD PINDARIC.1

PINDARIC, n. An ode in imitation of the odes of Pindar the Grecian, and prince of the lyric poets; an irregular ode. NWAD PINDARIC.2

PINDUST, n. Small particles of metal made by pointing pins. NWAD PINDUST.1

PINE, n. [L. pinus.] A tree of the genus Pinus, of many species, some of which furnish timber of the most valuable kind. The species which usually bear this name in the United States, are the white pine, Pinus strobus, the prince of our forests; the yellow pine, Pinus resinosa; and the pitch pine, Pinus rigida. The other species of this genus are called by other names, a fir, hemlock, larch, spruce, etc. NWAD PINE.1

PINE, v.i. NWAD PINE.2

1. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away under any distress of anxiety of mind; to grow lean; followed sometimes by away. NWAD PINE.3

Ye shall not mourn nor weep, but ye shall pine away for your iniquities. Ezekiel 24:23. NWAD PINE.4

2. To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; usually followed by for. NWAD PINE.5

Unknowing that she pin’d for your return. NWAD PINE.6

PINE, v.t. To wear out; to make to languish. NWAD PINE.7

Where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime. NWAD PINE.8

Beroe pined with pain. NWAD PINE.9

1. To grieve for; to bemoan in silence. NWAD PINE.10

Abashed the devil stood-- NWAD PINE.11

Virtue in her own shape how lovely, saw, NWAD PINE.12

And pined his loss. NWAD PINE.13

[In the transitive sense, this verb is now seldom used, and this use is improper, except by ellipsis.] NWAD PINE.14

PINE, n. Woe; want; penury; misery. NWAD PINE.15

[This is obsolete. See Pain.] NWAD PINE.16

PINEAL, a. [L. pinus.] The pineal gland is a part of the brain, about the bigness of a pea, situated in the third ventricle; so called from its shape. It was considered by Descartes as the seat of the soul. NWAD PINEAL.1