pilel (pil)

[ E. pestle and pistil ); cf. pila, a mortar (› AS. pile, a mortar, also in comp. pil - stæf, a pestle, pīlstampe, a pestle, pilstocc, a pestle, deriv. pilstre, a pestle), contr. of * pisla, * pisula; MLG. pil = OHG. phil , fil , MHG. Pile of an arrow, 13th or 14th century. pisere, pinsere, pound, beat, bray, crush.] 1. The pointed head of a staff, pike, arrow, or the like, when not barbed, generally of a rounded form and serving as a ferrule; also, an arrow. Cut off the timber of this cursed shaft, And let the fork'd pile canker to my heart. Chapman , Gentleman Usher, iv. 1. The artist has carefully distinguished the barbed head of the arrow and the pile of the cro bow bolt. Hewitt , Anc. Armour, I., p. xiii. With the right hand draw the arrow from the quiver, pa it acro the bow until the steel pile projects ten inches beyond the handle. M. and W. Thompson, Archery, p. 16. 2t. A javelin. [Rare.] That was but civil war, an equal set, Where piles with piles , and eagles eagles met. Dryden, Hind and Panther, ii. 161. [The above is an imitation of the following pa age: "Infest is que obvia sign is Signa, pares aquilas, et pila min anti a pilis ." Lucan , Pharsalia, iii. 7.] pile Of fight, the disciplyne and exercise Was this. To have a pale or pile upright Of mannys hight, thus writeth olde and wise; Therwith a bacheler, or a yong knyght, Shal first be taught to stonde and lerne to fight. And fanne of doubil wight, tak him his shelde Of doubil wight, a mace of tre to welde. This fanne and mace whiche either doubil wight Of shelde, and swayed in conflicte or bataile, Shal exercise as well swordmen as knyghtes. MS. Cott. Titus, A. xxiii. fol. 617. And noe man, as they sayn, is seyn prevaile, In field or in castell, thoughe he a ayle, That with the pile nat he [ i. e. ne hath, hath not] firste grete exercise; Thus writeth Werrouris olde and wyse. Knyghthode and Batayle (quoted in Strutt's Sports and [Pastimes, p. 185). False pile, an additional length given to a pile after driving. E. H. Knight. - Gaged piles, large piles placed at regular distances apart, with horizontal beams called runners fitted to each side of them by notching, and secured by bolts. They form a guide for the filling-piles, which are driven between the runners, filling up the spaces between them. Hollow pile, a large wrought or cast-iron cylinder sunk in sandy strata by digging away or forcing out the sand from the inside. Sections of cylinder are added above, as may be nece ary, and secured by flanges and bolts. Hydraulic pile, a pile sunk in sand by means of a water-jet. Two methods are followed. In one, a hollow iron pile is set upright in the sand in the position it is to occupy, while a powerful stream of water is forced into the pile and escapes through a hole at the point of the tube, forcing up the sand, so that the tube rapidly sinks. In the other method, solid wooden piles are sunk in the same manner, the jet being delivered at the foot of the pile by means of an iron pipe let down beside the pile and afterward withdrawn. On stopping the water-jet the sand quickly settles around the pile and holds it firmly in position. Pneumatic pile. See pneumatic. (See also screw pile, sheet- pile.) pilel (pil), v. t.; pret. and pp. piled, ppr. piling. [ IMG:content-0170.png:[blocks in formation] His purple feather, newly made, and in the dust it fell. Chapman, Iliad, xv. 2. To furnish, strengthen, or support with piles; drive piles into. pile2 (pil), n. [ For to deluen a dyche depe a-boute Vnite, That holy-cherche stode in Vnite as it a pyle were. Piers Plowman (B), xix. 360. Alle men children in towne & pile To slee them, that ihesus myght with hem die. Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 45. The inhabitants at this day call it Milne e; and as small a village as it is, yet hath it a pile . Holland, tr. of Camden, p. 775. ( Davies .) 3. A large building or ma of buildings of stone or brick; a ma ive edifice: as, a noble pile; a venerable pile. Went to see Clarendon House, now almost finish'd, a goodly pile to see to. Evelyn, Diary, Nov. 28, 1666. In the midst of the ruins, there stands up one pile higher than the rest, which is the East end of a great Church, Maundrell , Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 49. Scott , Marmion, ii. 1. High Whitby's cloistered pile . 3. A pointed stake; specifically, in arch. and eng in., a beam, heavy, generally of timber, often probably of the Cathedral of Tyre the roughly trimmed trunk of a tree, pointed or support of some superstructure or to form part not at the end and driven into the soil for the of a wall, as of a coffer-dam or quay. For perm a nent works piles are driven in loose or uncertain strata in rows, leaving a space a few feet in width between them, and upon the heads of the piles the foundations of the superstructure are erected. In temporary constructions they are driven close together in single or double rows, so as to inclose a space of water and form a coffer-dam, from which the water is subsequently pumped out, and thus a dry space is obtained for laying the foundation of piers, etc., in bridges and other similar works. Iron piles are used for wharf-walls and other purposes; they are hollow or tubular within, and are cast in various forms. See cuts under lake - dwelling, pile - driver, and pilework. They ram me in great piles of woodde, which they lay very deepe, upon the which they place their bricke. Coryat, Crudities, I. 206. What rotten piles uphold their mason-work. Tennyson , Sir John Old castle, Lord Cobham. 4t. A post such as that used in the exercise of the quintain. 4. A pyramid; a pyramidal figure; specifically, in her., a bearing consisting of a pyramidal or wedge-shaped figure (generally a umed to represent an arrow-head), which, unle otherwise blazoned, seems to emerge from the top of the escutcheon with its point downward. It is usually considered one of the subordinaries, but by some authors as an ordinary. See pile1, 1, and phrases below. - Cro and pile. See cro 1. Cro pile, a pile in which boards, iron bars, or the like are placed in alternate layers at right angles to each other. -Per pile, in her . , divided by lines in the form of a pile that is, forming a V-shaped figure in the field. If this Vshaped figure has not its point downward, the blazon must expre it as per pile transposed , per pile reversed , per pile traverse, etc. - Pile solid, in her ., a pile represented as in relief, having three lines, which give it the appearance of a blunt pyramid, projecting upward from the field. One of the three triangles thus formed is of a different tincture from the others, to help the solid appearance.- Triple pile, triple-pointed pile, in her ., a pile IMG:content-0171.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0172.png:[blocks in formation] Cut pile, in a fabric, a pile woven in loops which are af- terward cut so as to give a smooth surface composed of pile. Same as pile upon pile : said of velvet. - Pile car- the ends of the fibers, as in velvet, plush, etc. - Double connecting the heads of piles. pet. See carpet . - Pile upon pile, an arrangement in pile-clamp (pil'klamp), n. In surg . , an instru- which a part of the pile is shorter than another part, as in ment for clamping hemorrhoids previous to ex- velvet, in which a pattern is produced in this way, the pile cision. the background. pile4 (pil), v . t.; pret. and pp. piled , ppr. piling . [ n .] To furnish with pile; make shaggy. Thou art good velvet; thou 'rt a three - piled piece, I warrant thee: I had as lief be a list of an English kersey as be piled as thou art piled for a French velvet. Shak., M. for M., i. 2. 33. His cloak of crimson velvet piled , Trimmed with the fur of marten wild. The father makes the pile : hereon he layes His bond-led, blind-led Son. 3. An oblong rectangular ma of cut lengths of puddled bars of iron, laid together and ready for being rolled after being raised to a welding- temperature in a reheating-furnace. The size of a pile and the quality of the iron of which it is composed vary according to special requirements, the same pile some- times containing widely different qualities of iron in its different parts. 4. In elect ., a series of plates of two di imilar metals, such as copper and zinc, laid one above the other alternately, with cloth or paper placed between each pair, moistened with an acid so- lution, for producing a current of electricity. See electricity. The term is sometimes used as syn on- ymous with battery , for any form of apparatus designed to produce a current of dynamic electricity. It is also applied to an apparatus for detecting slight changes of temperature. See thermopile . 5. A large amount of money; a fortune: as, he has made his pile . [Slang, U. S.] the whole forming a battery the action which, due to hygroscopic character of the paper disk, is remarkably per- manent.- Funeral pile. See funeral . They conveyed them unto the funerall pile on beeres. Sandys , Travailes, p. 65. Poles of a voltaic pile. See pole 2. - Volta's pile. See battery , 8. IMG:content-0173.jpg:[blocks in formation] (pil), v . t .; pret. and pp. piled , ppr. piling . [ pilen , var. of pillen , ult. pilare , deprive of hair: see pill2 , of which piles is thus ult. a variant. Cf. peell , with which piles may have been confused.] To break off the awns of (threshed barley). [Prov. Eng.] pilet, v . Pilea (pīlē-ä), n. [NL. (Lindley, 1821), so called with ref. to the original species, in which one of the three sepals is enlarged into a hood over the fruit; pileus , a felt cap: see pileus .] 1. A genus of apetalous herbs of the order Urticaceæ , tribe Urticeæ , and subtribe Procrideæ , dist in- guished by the equilateral opposite leaves and loosely branched or somewhat condensed green- part small weedy plants, widely dispersed throughout the ish cymes. There are about 175 species, for the most tropics except in Australia, with one, P. pumila , the clear- weed or richweed, with translucent watery stem, common in rich woodlands of the United States. Many species have the peculiarity of developing one leaf of a pair very much larger than that opposite. See artillery - plant , burn- ing - bush , 2 (b), clearweed , coolweed , and dwarf elder (under elder ), the last peculiar in this genus (mainly of weeds) from having a woody stem. pileata (pil-e-ata), a . [L., fem. of pileatus , capped: see pileate .] Capped that is, covered or stopped: applied to organ-pipes. Pileata diapenta, a stopped quint. - Pileata major, a stopped 16-foot pipe. Pileata minor, a stopped 4-foot pipe. pileate (pil'ē-āt), a . [L. pileatus , pill eat us , capped, bonneted, pileus , pilleus , a cap: see pileus.] 1. Capped; specifically, in bot . , hav- ing a pileus or cap, as certain fungi. See Agaric us .-2. Having the form of a cap or cover for the head. See cut under Crypturus . A pileated echinus taken up with different shells of several kinds. Woodward. pileated (pil'ā-ā-ted), a. [ pileate + -ed2 .] 1. Same as pileate .-2. In ornith ., crested; having the feathers of the pileum elongated and con- IMG:content-0174.jpg:[blocks in formation] spicuous: as, the pileated wood- IMG:content-0175.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0176.jpg:[graphic] or black logcock . It is usually 16 to 18 is slaty-black, con- spicuously striped with white or pale yellowish on the head and neck, this color also varying the hidden parts of the wings; the male has the whole pileum scarlet; in the female the crest is scarlet on the posterior half only. This fine bird inhabits all the heavily wooded regions of pecker of Europe, Picus or Dryocopus martius . the country, where it represents the great black wood- pile-beam (pil'bēm), n . A separate warp-beam, upon which is wound and carried the pile-warp: distinguished from the usual warp-beam a pile-bridge (pīl'brij), n. A bridge consisting of a platform supported by piles. It is probably the earliest form of bridge, and is still largely used, especially pile-builder (pil'bil"dėr), n . One who erects a structure on piles; specifically, one of a com- munity which customarily dwells in huts or IMG:content-0177.png:[blocks in formation] (-zē). [NL., pileus , pilleus , a cap, + Gr. ῥίζα , a root.] In bot ., the root-cap. pileorhize (pil'ē-ō-rīz), n. pileous (pi'le-us), a. [L. pilus , a hair, the hair: see pile4 .] Same as pilous . Same as pileorhiza . pile-pier (pil'per), n. In hydraul. eng in., a pier supported on piles.