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Definition of pile

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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..

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Spile :: Spile (n.) A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask..

Three-piled :: Three-piled (a.) Fig.: Extravagant; exaggerated; high-flown.

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

Pile :: 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..

Epileptoid :: Epileptoid (a.) Resembling epilepsy; as, epileptoid convulsions..

Zati :: Zati (n.) A species of macaque (Macacus pileatus) native of India and Ceylon. It has a crown of long erect hair, and tuft of radiating hairs on the back of the head. Called also capped macaque..

Heap :: Heap (n.) A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.

Haycock :: Haycock (n.) A conical pile or hear of hay in the field.

Villus :: Villus (n.) Fine hairs on plants, resembling the pile of velvet..

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..

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..

Recompile :: Recompile (v. t.) To compile anew.

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

Suttee :: Suttee (n.) A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character..

Teredo :: Teredo (n.) A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App..

Pilement :: Pilement (n.) An accumulation; a heap.

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..

Wilton Carpet :: Wilton carpet () A kind of carpet woven with loops like the Brussels, but differing from it in having the loops cut so as to form an elastic velvet pile; -- so called because made originally at Wilton, England..

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..

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