Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 63
Pika (n.) 一種短耳野兔 Any one of several species of rodents of the genus Lagomys, resembling small tailless rabbits. They inhabit the high mountains of Asia and America. Called also calling hare, and crying hare. See Chief hare.
Pike (n. ) (Mil.) (n.) 矛，梭子魚，通行費 (v. t.) 用矛刺殺，刺 A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.
Pike (n. ) A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target. -- Beau. & Fl.
Pike (n. ) A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Tusser.
Pike (n. ) A pick. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wright. Raymond.
Pike (n. ) A pointed or peaked hill. [R.]
Pike (n. ) A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Pike (n. ) A turnpike; a toll bar. -- Dickens.
Pike (n.) (Zool.) (sing. & pl.) A large fresh-water fish ({Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack.
Note: Blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and yellow pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the wall-eye. See Wall-eye.
Gar pike. See under Gar.
Pike perch (Zool.), Any fresh-water fish of the genus Stizostedion (formerly Lucioperca). See Wall-eye, and Sauger.
Pike pole, A long pole with a pike in one end, used in directing floating logs.
Pike whale (Zool.), A finback whale of the North Atlantic ({Bal[ae]noptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; -- called also piked whale.
Sand pike (Zool.), The lizard fish.
Sea pike (Zool.), The garfish (a).
Pike (n.) A broad highway designed for high-speed traffic [syn: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway].
Pike (n.) Highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh.
Pike (n.) A sharp point (as on the end of a spear).
Pike (n.) Medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet.
Pike (n.) Any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere.
Pike -- U.S. County in Georgia
Population (2000): 13688
Housing Units (2000): 5068
Land area (2000): 218.374103 sq. miles (565.586305 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.055901 sq. miles (2.734772 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 219.430004 sq. miles (568.321077 sq. km)
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 33.089773 N, 84.377396 W
Headwords:
Pike
Pike, GA
Pike County
Pike County, GA
Pike -- U.S. County in Kentucky
Population (2000): 68736
Housing Units (2000): 30923
Land area (2000): 787.688725 sq. miles (2040.104346 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.154883 sq. miles (2.991134 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 788.843608 sq. miles (2043.095480 sq. km)
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 37.447794 N, 82.411115 W
Headwords:
Pike
Pike, KY
Pike County
Pike County, KY
Pike -- U.S. County in Illinois
Population (2000): 17384
Housing Units (2000): 8011
Land area (2000): 830.298891 sq. miles (2150.464165 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 18.574461 sq. miles (48.107632 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 848.873352 sq. miles (2198.571797 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.629292 N, 90.886468 W
Headwords:
Pike
Pike, IL
Pike County
Pike County, IL
Pike -- U.S. County in Indiana
Population (2000): 12837
Housing Units (2000): 5611
Land area (2000): 336.176076 sq. miles (870.692004 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.906826 sq. miles (12.708620 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 341.082902 sq. miles (883.400624 sq. km)
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 38.411987 N, 87.237138 W
Headwords:
Pike
Pike, IN
Pike County
Pike County, IN
Pike -- U.S. County in Missouri
Population (2000): 18351
Housing Units (2000): 7493
Land area (2000): 672.823225 sq. miles (1742.604079 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 11.985872 sq. miles (31.043265 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 684.809097 sq. miles (1773.647344 sq. km)
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 39.360621 N, 91.145704 W
Headwords:
Pike
Pike, MO
Pike County
Pike County, MO
Pike -- U.S. County in Mississippi
Population (2000): 38940
Housing Units (2000): 16720
Land area (2000): 408.888855 sq. miles (1059.017229 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.894998 sq. miles (4.908022 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 410.783853 sq. miles (1063.925251 sq. km)
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 31.200988 N, 90.433906 W
Headwords:
Pike
Pike, MS
Pike County
Pike County, MS
Pike -- U.S. County in Ohio
Population (2000): 27695
Housing Units (2000): 11602
Land area (2000): 441.486452 sq. miles (1143.444613 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.456174 sq. miles (6.361461 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 443.942626 sq. miles (1149.806074 sq. km)
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.073170 N, 83.037706 W
Headwords:
Pike
Pike, OH
Pike County
Pike County, OH
Pike -- U.S. County in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 46302
Housing Units (2000): 34681
Land area (2000): 546.808650 sq. miles (1416.227843 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 19.829812 sq. miles (51.358975 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 566.638462 sq. miles (1467.586818 sq. km)
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 41.328631 N, 75.001054 W
Headwords:
Pike
Pike, PA
Pike County
Pike County, PA
Pike -- U.S. County in Alabama
Population (2000): 29605
Housing Units (2000): 13981
Land area (2000): 671.033468 sq. miles (1737.968630 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.061715 sq. miles (2.749829 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 672.095183 sq. miles (1740.718459 sq. km)
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 31.792165 N, 85.937370 W
Headwords:
Pike
Pike, AL
Pike County
Pike County, AL
Pike -- U.S. County in Arkansas
Population (2000): 11303
Housing Units (2000): 5536
Land area (2000): 603.008374 sq. miles (1561.784452 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 10.872727 sq. miles (28.160233 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 613.881101 sq. miles (1589.944685 sq. km)
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 34.177310 N, 93.656805 W
Headwords:
Pike
Pike, AR
Pike County
Pike County, AR
Pike, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 382
Housing Units (2000): 141
Land area (2000): 0.982435 sq. miles (2.544494 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.008567 sq. miles (0.022189 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.991002 sq. miles (2.566683 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57815
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.556262 N, 78.155313 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Pike, NY
Pike
Piked (a.) Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed. "With their piked targets bearing them down." -- Milton.
Pike-devant (n.) A pointed beard. [Obs.] Pikelet
Pikelet (n.) Alt. of Pikelin.
Pikelin (n.) A light, thin cake or muffin. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wright.
Pikeman (n. pl. ) of Pikeman.
Pikeman (n.) 長矛兵；用鎬的礦工；(收費道路的) 收費員A soldier armed with a pike. -- Knolles.
Pikeman (n.) A miner who works with a pick. -- Beaconsfield.
Pikeman (n.) A keeper of a turnpike gate. -- T. Hughes.
Pikestaff (n.) 矛桿 The staff, or shaft, of a pike.
Pikestaff (n.) 有鐵尖的行路杖 A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping. -- Sir W. Scott.
Pikestaff (n.) The staff of a pike.
Piketail (n.) (Zool.) See Pintail, 1.
Compare: Pintail
Pintail (n.) (Zool.) A northern duck ({Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail.
Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon.
Pintail (n.) (Zool.) The sharp-tailed grouse of the great plains and Rocky Mountains ({Pedioc[ae]tes phasianellus); -- called also pintailed grouse, pintailed chicken, springtail, and sharptail.
Pintail (n. pl. pintail or pintails) Any of several ducks of the genus Anas having sharply pointed tails, especially A. acuta, found throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
Pintail (n. pl. pintail or pintails) A bird having elongated central tail feathers.
Especially : A slender long-necked duck (Anas acuta) of the northern hemisphere with the breeding male having a brown head, a white breast with a white line continuing up the side of the neck, chiefly gray upperparts, and a long black tail and with the female having chiefly mottled brown plumage.
Pikrolite (n.) (Min.) See Picrolite.
Pilage (n.) See Pelage.
Pilaster (n.) (Arch.) An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less.
Pilaster (n.) A rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached.
Pilastered (a.) Furnished with pilasters.
Pilau (n.) See Pillau.
Pillau (n.) An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, fat, or butter. [Written also pilau.]
Pilau (n.) Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes [syn: pilaf, pilaff, pilau, pilaw].
Pilch (n.) A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur. [Obs.]
Pilchard (n.) (Zool.) A small European food fish ({Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England.
Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings. -- Shak.
Pilchard (n.) Small fatty fish usually canned [syn: sardine, pilchard].
Pilchard (n.) Small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring [syn: pilchard, sardine, Sardina pilchardus].
Pilcher (n.) A scabbard, as of a sword. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Pilcher (n.) (Zool.) The pilchard.
Pilcrow (n.) (Print.) A paragraph mark, [para]. [Obs.] -- Tusser.
Pile (n.) The head of an arrow or spear. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
Pile (n.) A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
Note: Tubular iron piles are now much used.
Pile (n.) (Her.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
Pile bridge, A bridge of which the roadway is supported on piles.
Pile cap, A beam resting upon and connecting the heads of piles.
Pile driver, or Pile engine, An apparatus for driving down piles, consisting usually of a high frame, with suitable appliances for raising to a height (by animal or steam power, the explosion of gunpowder, etc.) a heavy mass of iron, which falls upon the pile.
Pile dwelling. See Lake dwelling, under Lake.
Pile plank (Hydraul. Eng.), A thick plank used as a pile in sheet piling. See Sheet piling, under Piling.
Pneumatic pile. See under Pneumatic.
Screw pile, One with a screw at the lower end, and sunk by rotation aided by pressure.
Pile (n.) A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. -- Cowper.
Pile (n.) (Zool.) A covering of hair or fur.
Pile (v. t.) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
To sheet-pile, To make sheet piling in or around. See Sheet piling, under 2nd Piling.
Piled (imp. & p. p.) of Pile.
Piling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pile.
Pile (v. t.) To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; -- often with up; as, to pile up wood. "Hills piled on hills." -- Dryden. "Life piled on life." -- Tennyson.
The labor of an age in piled stones. -- Milton.
Pile (v. t.) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
To pile arms, To pile muskets (Mil.), To place three guns together so that they may stand upright, supporting each other; to stack arms. Pileate
Pile (n.) A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.
Pile (n.) A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
Pile (n.) A funeral pile; a pyre. -- Dryden.
Pile (n.) A large building, or mass of buildings.
The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight. -- Dryden.
Pile (n.) (Iron Manuf.) Same as Fagot, n., 2.
Pile (n.) (Elec.) A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
Note: The term is sometimes applied to other forms of apparatus designed to produce a current of electricity, or as synonymous with battery; as, for instance, to an apparatus for generating a current of electricity by the action of heat, usually called a thermopile.
Pile (n.) The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.
Cross and pile. See under Cross.
Dry pile. See under Dry.
Piles (n. pl.) (Med.) The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids.
Note: [The singular pile is sometimes used.]
Blind piles, Hemorrhoids which do not bleed.
Pile (n.) A collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn: pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus].
Pile (n.) (Often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad].
Pile (n.) A large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house" [syn: pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money].
Pile (n.) Fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) [syn: down, pile].
Pile (n.) Battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta [syn: voltaic pile, pile, galvanic pile].
Pile (n.) A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure [syn: pile, spile, piling, stilt].
Pile (n.) The yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave; "for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction" [syn: pile, nap].
Pile (n.) A nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy [syn: atomic pile, atomic reactor, pile, chain reactor].
Pile (v.) Arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves" [syn: stack, pile, heap].
Pile (v.) Press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" [syn: throng, mob, pack, pile, jam].
Pile (v.) Place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested."
PILE, () Polytechnic's Instructional Language for Educators.
Similar in use to an enhanced PILOT, but structurally more like Pascal with Awk-like associative arrays (optionally stored on disk). Distributed to about 50 sites by Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation for Apple II and CP/M.
["A Universal Computer Aided Instruction System," Henry G. Dietz & Ronald J Juels, Proc Natl Educ Computing Conf '83, pp.279-282].
PILE, () ["PILE _ A Language for Sound Synthesis", P. Berg, Computer Music Journal 3.1, 1979]. (1999-06-04)
Pileate (a.) Alt. of Pileated.
Pileated (a.) Having the form of a cap for the head.
Pileated (a.) (Zool.) Having a crest covering the pileus, or whole top of the head.
Pileated woodpecker (Zool.), A large American woodpecker ({Ceophloeus pileatus). It is black, with a bright red pointed crest. Called also logcock, and woodcock.
Piled (a.) Having a pile or point; pointed. [Obs.] "Magus threw a spear well piled." -- Chapman.
Piled (a.) Having a pile or nap. "Three-piled velvet." -- L. Barry (1611).
Piled (a.) (Iron Manuf.) Formed from a pile or fagot; as, piled iron.
Pileiform (a.) Having the form of a pileus or cap; pileate.
Pilement (n.) An accumulation; a heap. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Pilenta (n. pl. ) of Pilentum.
Pilentum (n.) [L.] (Rom. Antiq.) An easy chariot or carriage, used by Roman ladies, and in which the vessels, etc., for sacred rites were carried.
Pilorhizae (n. pl. ) of Pileorhiza.
Pileorhiza (n.) (Bot.) A cap of cells which covers the growing extremity of a root; a rootcap.
Pileous (a.) Consisting of, or covered with, hair; hairy; pilose.
Piler (n.) One who places things in a pile.
Piles (n. pl.) (Med.) The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids.
Note: [The singular pile is sometimes used.]
Blind piles, Hemorrhoids which do not bleed.
Piles (n.) Pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter [syn: hemorrhoid, haemorrhoid, piles].
Piles (n.) A large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers" [syn: tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings].
Pilei (n. pl. ) of Pileus.
Pileus (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) A kind of skull cap of felt.
Pileus (n.) (Bot.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.
Pileus (n.) (Zool.) The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.
Pileworm (n.) (Zool.) The teredo.
Pile-worn (a.) Having the pile worn off; threadbare.
Pilewort (n.) (Bot.) A plant ({Ranunculus Ficaria of Linnaeus) whose tuberous roots have been used in poultices as a specific for the piles. -- Forsyth.
Pilewort (n.) Perennial herb native to Europe but naturalized elsewhere having heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers resembling buttercups; its tuberous roots have been used as a poultice to relieve piles [syn: lesser celandine, pilewort, Ranunculus ficaria].
Pilfered (imp. & p. p.) of Pilfer.
Pilfering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pilfer.
Pilfer (v. i.) To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft.
Pilfer (v. t.) To take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by little.
And not a year but pilfers as he goes Some youthful grace that age would gladly keep. -- Cowper.
Pilfer (v.) Make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift].
Pilferer (n.) One who pilfers; a petty thief.
Pilferer (n.) A thief who steals without using violence [syn: sneak thief, pilferer, snitcher].
Pilfering (a.) Thieving in a small way. -- Shak. -- n. Petty theft. -- Pil"fer*ing*ly, adv.
Pilfery (n.) Petty theft. [R.] -- Sir T. North.
Pilgarlic (n.) One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.
Pilgrim (a.) Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages. "With pilgrim steps." --Milton.
Pilgrim fathers, A name popularly given to the one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in 1620. They were separatists from the Church of England, and most of them had sojourned in Holland.
Pilgrim (n.) 旅行者，朝聖者，香客 A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. -- Heb. xi. 13.
Pilgrim (n.) One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer. -- P. Plowman.
Pilgrim (v. i.) 朝聖 To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] -- Grew. Carlyle.
Pilgrim (n.) Someone who journeys in foreign lands.
Pilgrim (n.) One of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620 [syn: Pilgrim, Pilgrim Father].
Pilgrim (n.) Someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion.
Pilgrim (n.) A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.
Pilgrimage (n.) [C] [U] 朝聖，朝覲；旅行；漫遊 The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life. -- Shak.
The days of the years of my pilgrimage. -- Gen. xlvii. 9.
Pilgrimage (n.) A tedious and wearisome time.
In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage. -- Shak.
Syn: Journey; tour; excursion. See Journey.
Pilgrimage (n.) A journey to a sacred place [syn: {pilgrimage}, {pilgrim's journey}].
Pilgrimize (v. i.) 去朝聖；漫遊 (v. t.) 使成為朝聖者；使成為漫遊者 To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Pildia (n. pl. ) of Pilidium.
Pilidium (n.) (Zool.) 帽狀幼蟲；帽狀幼體 The free-swimming, hat-shaped larva of certain nemertean worms. It has no resemblance to its parent, and the young worm develops in its interior.
Pilifera (n. pl.) (Zool.) Same as Mammalia.
Piliferous (a.) 有毛的；長毛髮或產毛髮的 Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair.
Piliferous (a.) Beset with hairs.
Piliform (a.) (Bot.) 像毛般的；毛狀的 Resembling hairs or down.
Piligerous (a.) 具毛的，被毛的 Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.
Piling (n.) The act of heaping up.
Piling (n.) (Iron Manuf.) The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.
Piling (n.) A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge.
Pug piling, Sheet piles connected together at the edges by dovetailed tongues and grooves.
Sheet piling, A series of piles made of planks or half logs driven edge to edge, -- used to form the walls of cofferdams, etc.
Piling (n.) A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure [syn: pile, spile, piling, stilt].
Pill (n.) The peel or skin. [Obs.] "Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts." -- Holland.
Pill (v. i.) To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
Pill (v. t.) To deprive of hair; to make bald. [Obs.]
Pill (v. t.) To peel; to make by removing the skin.
[Jacob] Pilled white streaks . . . in the rods. -- Gen. xxx. 37.
Pilled (imp. & p. p.) of Pill.