pillau, pillaw, pilaffe, pillaffe

[Pers. & Turkish.] An Eastern dish, consisting of rice cooked with fat, butter, or meat. pill-corn, s. [PILCORN.] pilled, a. [PILL (2), v.] Bald. *pill-er, *pill-our, s . [Fr. pilleur , from piller = to rob.] [PILL (1), v.] A plunderer, a robber, a thief. *pil-ler-ỹ (2), subst . [English pill (1), v.; ery.] Plunder, pillage, robbery, theft. pil-li-on, s. [Ir. pilliun, pill in; Gael. pillean, pill in a pack-saddle, from Ir. pill, pealla covering, a skin, a pillow; Gael. peall = a skin; Welsh pilyn =a garment, a pillion. Cogn. with Latin pell is = a skin; Eng. fell IMG:content-1079.png:[graphic] (2), s.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. A pad, a pan nel; a low sad dle. IMG:content-1080.png:[blocks in formation] Riding on a Pillion. 2. The pad of a saddle that rests on the horse's back. 3. A cushion for a woman to ride on behind a per son on horseback. "Taking the air now and then on a pillion , behind faithful John." Observer , No. 109. *4. The headdre of a priest. II. Metall .: The tin that remains in the slags after it is first melted. IMG:content-1081.jpg:[blocks in formation] Fasti Oxon., vol. i.; H. Burton .