An obsolete form of pelage

pilar (pi'lar), a. Pertaining to or covered Pila2.- Duomo of Pistoia, Italy The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0166.png:[ocr errors] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0168.png:[blocks in formation] pilaster (pi-las'ter), n. [Formerly also pill aster; = Sp. Pg. pilastra, pilastered (pi-las'tėrd), a . [ pilaster + -ed2.] Furnished with pilasters. The polish'd walls of marble be Pilaster'd round with porphyry. Cotton, Entertainment to Phillis. pilau (pi-lâ'), n. [Also pilaw , pillau , pillaw , pilaff , pillaffe ; Pilaster. Grand Trianon, Versailles, France (built by Louis XIV.). = F. pilau = It. pilao = G. pilaw = Ru . pi lavă = NGr. πιλάφι, Their most ordinary food is pillaw - that is, Rice which hath been sod with the fat of Mutton. Sandys , Travailes, p. 51. The dinner concluded with a pillaw of boiled rice and butter; for the easier discu ion of which we were provided with carved wooden spoons. R. F. Burton , El-Medinah, p. 477. Boiled mutton cold chicken, pilau of rice with raisins. G. Kennan , The Century, XXXVI. 522. [ pilche , pilch1 (pilch), n. pylche, pyls, E. peli e ), And the i clothen hem also with Pylches , and the Hyde with outen. Mandeville , Travels, p. 247. No man caste his pilche away. Chaucer, Proverbs, 1. 4. He was blakke and rough, for-rympled and longeberde, and bar-foote, and clothed in a rough pilche . ... Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 424. IMG:content-0169.png:[blocks in formation] 4485 2. Afish, Clupea sagax , closely related to the pilchard. [California.]-3. A third fish of the family Clupeidæ , Harengula macro pht halma . [Bermudas.]-4. The young menhaden. [Chesapeake Bay, U. S.] pilcher1t (pil'cher), n. [ pilch + -er (used indefinitely).] 1. One who wears a pilch. You mungrels, you curs, you ban-dogs [the serjeants of the Counter)! we are Captain Tucca that talk to you, you inhuman pilchers . B. Jonson, Poetaster, iii. 1. 2. A pilch.-3. A scabbard. [Cant.] Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears? Shak., R. and J., iii. 1. 84.