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  • English Word Pile Definition One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
  • English Word Pile Definition To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
  • English Word Pile Definition A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.
  • English Word Pile Definition A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
  • English Word Pile Definition A funeral pile; a pyre.
  • English Word Pile Definition A large building, or mass of buildings.
  • English Word Pile Definition Same as Fagot, n., 2.
  • English Word Pile Definition 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.
  • English Word Pile Definition The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.
  • English Word Pile Definition 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.
  • English Word Pile Definition To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
  • English Word Pile-worn Definition Having the pile worn off; threadbare.
  • English Word Pileate Definition Alt. of Pileated
  • English Word Pileated Definition Having the form of a cap for the head.
  • English Word Pileated Definition Having a crest covering the pileus, or whole top of the head.
  • English Word Piled Definition of Pile
  • English Word Piled Definition Having a pile or point; pointed.
  • English Word Piled Definition Having a pile or nap.
  • English Word Piled Definition Formed from a pile or fagot; as, piled iron.
  • English Word Pilei Definition of Pileus
  • English Word Pileiform Definition Having the form of a pileus or cap; pileate.
  • English Word Pilement Definition An accumulation; a heap.
  • English Word Pilenta Definition of Pilentum
  • English Word Pilentum Definition An easy chariot or carriage, used by Roman ladies, and in which the vessels, etc., for sacred rites were carried.
  • English Word Pileorhiza Definition A cap of cells which covers the growing extremity of a root; a rootcap.
  • English Word Pileous Definition Consisting of, or covered with, hair; hairy; pilose.
  • English Word Piler Definition One who places things in a pile.
  • English Word Piles Definition 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.]
  • English Word Pileus Definition A kind of skull cap of felt.
  • English Word Pileus Definition The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.