PILLOW

PIL'LOW, a cushion for the head. Mark 4:38. Jacob used a stone for his pillow. Gen 28:11, 1 Sam 30:18; in Eze 13:18, Ruth 4:20 pillows are spoken of as an appliance of luxury.

PIL'LOW, a cushion for the head. Mark 4:38. Jacob used a stone for his pillow. Gen 28:11, 1 Sam 30:18; in Eze 13:18, Ruth 4:20 pillows are spoken of as an appliance of luxury.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. 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. [Resty sloth] finds the down pillow hard. Shak.

2. A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. [R.]

3. A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.

4. A kind of plain, coarse fustian. Lace pillow, a cushion used in making hand-wrought lace. -- Pillow bier Etym: [OE. pilwebere; cf. LG. büre a pillowcase], a pillowcase; pillow slip. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Pillow block (Mach.), a block, or standard, for supporting a journal, as of a shaft. It is usually bolted to the frame or foundation of a machine, and is often furnished with journal boxes, and a movable cover, or cap, for tightening the bearings by means of bolts; -- called also pillar block, or plumber block. -- Pillow lace, handmade lace wrought with bobbins upon a lace pillow. -- Pillow of a plow, a crosspiece of wood which serves to raise or lower the beam. -- Pillow sham, an ornamental covering laid over a pillow when not in use. -- Pillow slip, a pillowcase.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support; as, to pillow the head. Pillows his chin upon an orient wave. Milton.