Definition of pile

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

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Fit :: Fit (n.) A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness..
Domebook :: Domebook (n.) A book said to have been compiled under the direction of King Alfred. It is supposed to have contained the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. Domebook was probably a general name for book of judgments..
Velvet :: Velvet (n.) A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back..
Pileus :: Pileus (n.) A kind of skull cap of felt.
Pily :: Pily (a.) Like pile or wool.
Black Book :: Black book () A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III..
Steam Engine :: Steamboating (n.) The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards..
Hysteroepilepsy :: Hysteroepilepsy (n.) A disease resembling hysteria in its nature, and characterized by the occurrence of epileptiform convulsions, which can often be controlled or excited by pressure on the ovaries, and upon other definite points in the body..
Heap :: Heap (n.) A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.
Antiepileptic :: Antiepileptic (a. & n.) Same as Antepileptic.
Shipworm :: Shipworm (n.) Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo..
Epileptic :: Epileptic (n.) One affected with epilepsy.
Dun :: Dun (v. t.) To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance..
Palification :: Palification (n.) The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.
Punch :: Punch (n.) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
Oyster-green :: Oyster-green (n.) A green membranous seaweed (Ulva) often found growing on oysters but common on stones, piles, etc..
Three-piled :: Three-piled (a.) Fig.: Extravagant; exaggerated; high-flown.
Bank :: Bank (v. t.) To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand..
Three-piled :: Three-piled (a.) Accustomed to wearing three-pile; hence, of high rank, or wealth..
Epileptic :: Epileptic (n.) A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.
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