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 It is now superseded by the bayonet.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Pike (n.) Medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet.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.) The staff, or shaft, of a pike.

Pikestaff (n.) 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.

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.

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.) [Per. & Turk. pilau.] An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, fat, or butter. [Written also pilau.]

Pilch (n.) A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur. [Obs.]

Pilchard (n.) 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.

Pilcher (n.) A scabbard, as of a sword.

Pilcher (n.) The pilchard.

Pilcrow (n.) [A corruption of Paragraph.] (Print.) A paragraph mark, [para]. [Obs.] -- Tusser.

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.

Pile (n.) A covering of hair or fur.

Pile (n.) The head of an arrow or spear.

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.

Pile (n.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

Pile (v. t.) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

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.

Pile (n.) A large building, or mass of buildings.

Pile (n.) Same as Fagot, n., 2.

Pile (n.) 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.

Pile (n.) The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.

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.

Pile (v. t.) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

Pileate (a.) Alt. of Pileated.

Pileated (a.) Having the form of a cap for the head.

Pileated (a.) Having a crest covering the pileus, or whole top of the head.

Piled (a.) Having a pile or point; pointed.

Piled (a.) Having a pile or nap.

Piled (a.) 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.

Pilenta (n. pl. ) of Pilentum.

Pilentum (n.) 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.) 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.) The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids. [The singular pile is sometimes used.]

Pilei (n. pl. ) of Pileus.

Pileus (n.) A kind of skull cap of felt.

Pileus (n.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.

Pileus (n.) The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.

Pileworm (n.) The teredo.

Pile-worn (a.) Having the pile worn off; threadbare.

Pilewort (n.) A plant (Ranunculus Ficaria of Linnaeus) whose tuberous roots have been used in poultices as a specific for the piles.

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.

Pilferer (n.) One who pilfers; a petty thief.

Pilfering (a.) Thieving in a small way.

Pilfering (n.) Petty theft.

Pilfery (n.) Petty theft.

Pilgarlic (n.) One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.

Pilgrim (n.) 旅行者,朝聖者,香客 A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.

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.

Pilgrim (a.) Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.

Pilgrim (v. i.) 朝聖 To journey; to wander; to ramble.

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.) 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.

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