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noun

Pillow n.

1.

Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material. "(Resty sloth) finds the down pillow hard."

2.

(Mach.) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. (R.)

3.

(Naut.) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.

4.

A kind of plain, coarse fustian.

Lace pillow, a cushion used in making hand-wrought lace.

Pillow bier, a pillowcase; pillow slip. (Obs.)

Pillow block (Mach.), a block, or standard, for supporting a journal, as of a shaft. It is usually bolted to the frame or foundation of a machine, and is often furnished with journal boxes, and a movable cover, or cap, for tightening the bearings by means of bolts; called also pillar block, or plumber block.

Pillow lace, handmade lace wrought with bobbins upon a lace pillow.

Pillow of a plow, a crosspiece of wood which serves to raise or lower the beam.

Pillow sham, an ornamental covering laid over a pillow when not in use.

Pillow slip, a pillowcase.

verb

Pillow v. t. (past & past part. pillowed; pres. part. pillowing) To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support; as, to pillow the head. "Pillows his chin upon an orient wave."

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Etymology of 'Pillow'

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"Pillow" Quotes from Famous Books

... Geral, I see him all pack in e wagon, for e Bubbalo town—all, except dis here I find in Miss Mungummery cabin under e pillow." ...

— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson

... could you?" he cried, as he leant over him, pressing him down with his head on the pillow, and searched him wildly with his eyes, and then with one hand, for ...

— The Queen's Scarlet - The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne • George Manville Fenn

... though they were not broken; and feeling very sleepy and miserable, I groped about until I Was rewarded by discovering a narrow bed, or cot of trellis-work, on which was a hard straw pallet and a small straw pillow; also, folded small, a kind of woolen sleeping garment. Too tired to keep out of even such an uninviting bed, I flung off my clothes, and with my moldy tweeds for only covering I laid me down, but not to sleep. The misery of it! for although my body was warm—too warm, in fact—the ...

— A Crystal Age • W. H. Hudson

... morning, when you are ver' grave and important with some poor frightened patient, that Gyp Labelle kiss you last night, and that you are not different from ze others, after all. And I will take my shilling from under my pillow, and say: 'Poor Gyp, that's what you're worth, ...

— The Dark House • I. A. R. Wylie

... rendered unclean by acts of sexual congress. They who do not purify themselves after such acts, they who insult their superiors, they who from stupefaction eat different kinds of meat, the man also who sleeps at the foot of a tree, he who keeps any animal matter under his pillow while lying down for sleep, and he who lies down or sleeps placing the head where his feet should be placed or his feet where the head should be placed,—these men are regarded by us as unclean. Verily, these men have many holes. Those also are numbered in the same class who throw their ...

— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli

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