pilgrim (pilgrim)

and a. also pilgrime, pelgrom; separatists who sailed from Delft haven (in the Netherlands) in the "Mayflower," touching at Southampton, England, and founded the colony of Plymouth, Ma achusetts, at the end of 1620. -3. A new-comer, whether a person or an animal; a "tenderfoot." [Slang, western U. S.] Pilgrim and "tenderfoot" were formerly applied almost exclusively to newly imported cattle, but by a natural transferrence they are usually used to designate all newcomers, tourists, and busine -men. L. Swinburne , Scribner's Monthly, II. 508. 4. A curtain or screen of silk hanging from the back of a woman's bonnet to protect the neck, worn in the latter part of the eighteenth century. -Pilgrim-bottle, a round, flat bottle having on each side of the mouth or neck a ring for the insertion of a cord. The type is a common one in pottery of many nations and times, and is especially frequent in Italian work of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and in imitations of it. The simplest pilgrim-bottles are circular or oval and without a foot; but more elaborate vases, if preserving the flat form and the rings for a cord, are also known by this name. See costrel. - Pilgrim fathers, in Amer. hist., the founders of Plymouth Colony in 1620. See def. 2, above. - Pilgrim's pouch, a badge of lead or other material, having the form of a pouch and hollow like it, but very small: a variety of pilgrim's sign. - Pilgrim's shell. ( a ) A scallop or cockle-shell used as an emblem of pilgrimage, or a sign that one has visited the Holy Land. One of the scallops, Pecten jacobæus, is known as St. James's shell, from this circumstance. See Pecten, 2 ( a ). (b) In modern times, a carved pearl shell such as are brought the Holy Land. P. L. Art Jourmands, 72.-Pilgrim's sign, a small object given to pilgrims at a shrine or sacred place as evidence of their having visited it. It was sometimes a medal, sometimes a small ampulla of lead or pewter, and bore the mark of the monastery, church, PTISTE AMIHRIC BA 0000000000 SINNETOL NVH FAQIaI BEAT etc., which i ued it. Pilgrim's staff. (From "Journal of the British Archæologi (a) The long staff which was one of Pilgrim's Sign. cal A ociation," 1846.) IMG:content-0181.png:[blocks in formation] The ambulo hath no certain home or diet, but pilgrims up and down everywhere, feeding upon all sorts of plants. Grew. pilgrim Pilgrim ing restle ly to so many "Saints' Wells." 4488 pillar Hence-2. Something unpleasant that has to be accepted or (metaphorically) swallowed: by bitter. An instrument pilgrimage (pil'gri-māj), n. [Early mod. E. also pilgramage; eler, pilgrim: see pilgrim.] 1. A journey undertaken by a pilgrim; a traveling on through a strange country or to some place deemed sacred in order to perform some religious vow or duty, or obtain some spiritual or miraculous benefit. In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay, Ready to wenden on my pilgrimage. The Bantam said he had seen Tom secreting pilkins in a sack. G. Meredith, Ordeal of Richard Feverel, ix. pilll+ (pil), v. [Early mod. E. also pil , pile , pille ; also peel (by confusion with peell ), pillen , pie ; pyllen, len, pilen, pilen, pylen, plunder, ult. E. compile ), and expilare, plun Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. Т., 1. 21. We all by one a ent auowed a pylgrymage to be made in all our behalf fes to our ble yd Lady of Loreta. IMG:content-0182.png:[blocks in formation] = Syn. 1. Voyage, Tour, etc. See journey. pilgrim a get, v. i. [ To Egypt she'll pilgrimage , at Meroe fill Warme drops to sprinkle Isis Temple. Sir R. Stap let on , tr. of Juvenal's Satires, vi. 555. (Davies.) pilgrimer (pil'gri-mér), n. A pilgrim. Now, I am Magdalen, a poor pilgrimer , for the sake of Holy Kirk. Scott , Abbot, xv. pilgrimize (pil'gri-mīz), v . i .; pret. and pp. pil grimized , ppr. pilgrimizing . [ pilgrim + -ize .] To wander or journey about as a pilgrim: sometimes with an impersonal it . I'll bear thy charges, an thou wilt but pilgrimize it along with me to the land of Utopia. B. Jonson, Case is Altered, ii. 4. IMG:content-0183.png:[blocks in formation] 2. In conch., a genus of false limpets of the family Acmæida. tean, more advanced in B than in A; C, -3+. [1. c.] In A, B, younger and older pilidia: a , ali mentary canal; b, rudiment of the nemer. newly freed nemertean. bot., a hemispherical apothecium in certain lichens.