pil.

abbreviation for

Origin of pil.¹

From the Latin word pilula

Good three pil'd predication, will you peace, And hear the cause we come for?Cun.

Pillion, pil′yun, n. a cushion for a woman behind a horseman: the cushion of a saddle.

A remarkable blueness about the mouth and eyes, and purged considerably from the pil.

O what o'erflowing plenty is up-pil'd In those rich-laden coffers, which below Sow'd the good seed, whose harvest now they keep.

The green talons grasp The land, that stood erewhile the proof so long, And pil'd in bloody heap the host of France.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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