Pillow
['pɪləʊ] or ['pɪlo]
Definition
(noun.) a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person.
(verb.) rest on or as if on a pillow; 'pillow your head'.
Checker: Percy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block.
(n.) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.
(n.) A kind of plain, coarse fustian.
(v. t.) To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support; as, to pillow the head.
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Definition
n. a cushion filled with feathers &c. for resting the head on: any cushion: a block of metal for bearing the end of a shaft or the end of a bowsprit: the socket of a pivot.—v.t. to lay or rest on for support.—v.i. to rest the head on a pillow.—ns. Pill′ow-bier -beer -case -slip a cover which can be drawn over a pillow; Pill′ow-cup a last cup before going to bed.—adjs. Pill′owed supported by or provided with a pillow; Pill′owy like a pillow: soft.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a pillow, denotes luxury and comfort. For a young woman to dream that she makes a pillow, she will have encouraging prospects of a pleasant future.
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Examples
- I took my wages to my pillow, and passed the night counting them. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Floyd turned over the command to Pillow, who declined it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and threw himself down with his face to the pillow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Thus for ten days Little Dorrit bent over his pillow, laying her cheek against his. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Replacing her daughter on the couch, she smoothed the pillow and spread the sheet. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Somewhat reassured, Emmeline settled herself back on her pillow. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Now, said the woman, when she had raised his head on a roll of damaged cotton, which served for a pillow, there's the best I can do for you. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Do you hate your boy, and want to fire pillows at him? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Simmons sat propped up by the pillows and smoked. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- In the presence of the two witnesses, I gave him the dose, and shook up his pillows, and told him to lie down again quietly and wait. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The child lay panting on her pillows, as one exhausted,--the large clear eyes rolled up and fixed. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The jingling piano at last is silent, and the Harmonic friends rally round their pillows. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Lily, leaning back among her pillows, gazed musingly at his letter. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- My aunt, the best and most cheerful of nurses, would trudge after us, a moving mass of shawls and pillows. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- No matter how I fell asleep; I awoke pillowed and covered. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It's a well-earned rest: I'll say that for myself, she continued, sinking down with a sigh of content on the pillowed lounge near the fire. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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