pileorhiza

[Gr. pileos =a cap, and rhiza =a root.] Bot.: The cap of a root; a membranous hood at the of a Examples, Nuphar, Lemna, on the face to form a nap. pile-wire, s. Weaving: The wire around which the warp threads are looped to make a pile-fabric. pile (4), s. [PEEL (3), s.] pile (1), v. t. [PILE (1), s.] 1. To collect or heap together in a ma or pile; to heap up. "Achilles cover'd with their fat the dead, And the pil'd victims round the body spread." Pope: Homer's Iliad, xxiii. 207. 2. To accumulate; to bring together; to gather; 3. To fill with piles or heaps. 4. The head of an arrow or lance; an arrow with as, to pile quotations or extracts. a square head used in a cro bow. "His spear a bent, both stiff and strong The pile was of a horse-fly's tongue." Drayton: Nymphidia. 5. A small javelin; an arrow. "Where piles with piles , eagles with eagles met." Dryden: Hind and Panther, ii. 161. *6. One side of a coin; the reverse of a coin. The allusion is to the stamping of money; one side of the coin bore a cro , the other side was the under side in the stamping, and took its name from the pile or short pillar on which the coin rested. Hence, used for a coin, money, and the game of cro and pile =pitch and to . "A man may more justifiably throw up cro and pile for his opinions, than take them up by such measure."Locke: Human Underst., bk. iv., ch. xx. II. Technically : 1. Arch . & Eng .: A beam or timber driven into treacherous ground to form a foundation for a structure, or to form part of a wall, as of a coffer-dam or quay. Piles are named according to their structure, and the most important kinds are described under the respective qualifying terms-e.g., false-pile (q. v.). 2. Her .: One of the le er ordinaries, triangular in form and i uing from the chief with the point downward. When borne plain it should contain one-third of the chief in breadth, and if charged two-thirds. Pile. To pile arms: Mil.: To stack or place three rifles together in such a position that the butts rest firmly on the ground, and the bayonets on them are locked to gether obliquely. pile (2), v. t. [PILE (2), subst.] To support or strengthen with, or as with, piles; to drive piles into. *pile (3), v . t . [PEEL, v.] To peel; to strip the skin or rind off. To pile barley: To break off the awns of threshed barley.