pillow, pelowe, pile we, pilwe, pylow

[A. S. pyle, from Lat. pulvinus =a cushion, a pillow; Danish peuluw; German pfühl; M. H. G. phulwe; O. H. G. phulwi.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. A cushion, filled with feathers or other soft material, used as a rest for the head of a person when reposing. "Their feathers serve to stuff our beds and pillows ." Ray: Creation, pt. ii., p. 429. 2. Any support for the head when reposing. "[The] pillow was my helmet fair display'd." II. Technically : Spenser: F. Q. , I. ix. 13. 1. Fabric : [PILLOW-FUSTIAN.] 2. Machinery : (1) The rest or bearing of a gudgeon. (2) The socket of a pivot. 3. Ship build.: A block of wood on which the inner end of the bowsprit rests. Pillow of a plow : A cro piece of wood which serves to raise or lower the beam. *pillow-bier, *pilwe-bere, *pillow-bear, 8. A pillow case, or pillow-slip. "In his mall he had a pilwebere ." pillow-block, s. Chaucer: C. T. , 696. Much.: An iron cradle or bearing to hold the boxes or bra es which form a journal-bearing for a shaft or roller; a plumber-block.