pileworm (pilwerm)

A worm or some similar animal, as a gribble or shipworm, found embedded in the timber of submerged piles. See Limnoria , Teredo . IMG:content-0178.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0179.png:[merged small][subsumed][subsumed][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] or pilgrim stranger, foreign resident, prop. adj., foreign: see peregrine.] I. n. 1. A traveler; specifically, one who journeys to some place esteemed sacred, either as a penance, or in order to discharge some vow or religious obligation, or to obtain some spiritual miraculous benefit; hence, a wanderer; a sojourner in a foreign land. The custom of pilgrimages has prevailed especially in India, among Mohammedan peoples, and among Christians in the middle ages. Frequented places of Christian pilgrimage have been (besides Jerusalem and the Holy Land) Rome, Canterbury, Compos tel a in Spain, Einsiedeln in Switzerland, and in modern times Lourdes in France. IMG:content-0180.jpg:[graphic] Pilgrim, in the recognized dre worn at Rome in the 18th century. And on Mondaye we met with the shyppe with pylgrymes that went out of Venyce.iij. wekes before vs, whiche pylgrymes had done theyr pylgrymage and retourned home war des. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 15. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confe ed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Heb. xi. 13. With naked foot, and sackcloth vest, And arms enfolded on his breast, Did every pilgrim go. Scott, L. of L. M., vi. 29. A, elevation; B , plan; C , C ', sections. a a , piles; b , a guide pile; c, a stay-pile; dd, iron land-ties.