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Gribble :: Gribble (n.) A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America..

Nog :: Nog (n.) One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.

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

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..

Three-piled :: Three-piled (a.) Accustomed to wearing three-pile; hence, of high rank, or wealth..

Nummulation :: Nummulation (n.) The arrangement of the red blood corpuscles in rouleaux, like piles of coins, as when a drop of human blood is examined under the microscope..

Palification :: Palification (n.) The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.

Pilei :: Pilei (pl. ) of Pileu.

Axminster :: Axminster (n.) An Axminster carpet, an imitation Turkey carpet, noted for its thick and soft pile; -- so called from Axminster, Eng..

Compiler :: Compiler (n.) One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation..

Boletus :: Boletus (n.) A genus of fungi having the under side of the pileus or cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. A few are edible, and others very poisonous..

Pile :: Pile (n.) A funeral pile; a pyre.

Mushroom :: Mushroom (n.) An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn..

Steam Engine :: Steamboating (n.) The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards..

Diagometer :: Diagometer (n.) A sort of electroscope, invented by Rousseau, in which the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting power..

Fagot :: Fagot (n.) A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.

Hayrick :: Hayrick (n.) A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air..

Thermopile :: Thermopile (n.) An instrument of extreme sensibility, used to determine slight differences and degrees of heat. It is composed of alternate bars of antimony and bismuth, or any two metals having different capacities for the conduction of heat, connected with an astatic galvanometer, which is very sensibly affected by the electric current induced in the system of bars when exposed even to the feeblest degrees of heat..

Three-pile :: Three-pile (n.) An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile..

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

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