pilot engine (piloten"jin)

A locomotive engine sent on before a railway-train to see the way is clear, especially as a precursor to a train conveying important personages. pilous (pī'lus), a. [ That hair is not poison, though taken in a great quan tity, is proved by the excrements of voracious dogs, which is seen to be very pilous. J. Robinson, Eudoxa (1658), p. 124. 2. Consisting of hair; hair-like; piliform: as, a pilous covering. Also pileous. pilula (pil'u-li), n.; pl. pilulæ (-lē). [L.: see pilule.] In phar., a pill. pilular (pil'u-lär), a. [NL. * pilular is, Pilular i a (pil-ū-lā'ri-ä), п. [NL. (Vaillant, 1717), so called in allusion to the shape of the reproductive organs; pilule (pil'ūl), n. [F. pilule =Pg. pilula,