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Pile [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A heap; a mass or collection of things in a roundish or elevated form; as a pile of stones; a pile of bricks; a pile of wood or timber; a pile of ruins.

2. A collection of combustibles for burning a dead body; as a funeral pile

3. A large building or mass of buildings; an edifice.

4. The pile o'erlook'd the town and drew the sight.

5. A heap of balls or shot laid in horizontal courses, rising into a pyramidical form.

6. A large stake or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building or other superstructure. The stadthouse in Amsterdam is supported by piles.

7. One side of a coin; originally, a punch or puncheon used in stamping figures on coins, and containing the figures to be impressed. Hence the arms-side of a coin is called the pile and the head the cross, which was formerly in the place of the head. Hence cross and pile

8. In heraldry, an ordinary in form of a point inverted or a stake sharpened.

9. The head of an arrow.

10. Properly, a hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton and the like; hence, the nap, the fine hairy substance of the surface of cloth.

Pile [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To lay or throw into a heap; to collect many things into a mass; as, to pile wood or stones.

2. To bring into an aggregate; to accumulate; as, to pile quotations or comments.

3. To fill with something heaped.

4. To fill above the brim or top.

5. To break off the awns of threshed barley. [Local.]

Pile [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.

2. A covering of hair or fur.

3. The head of an arrow or spear.

4. A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.

5. One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

6. A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.

7. A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.

8. A funeral pile; a pyre.

9. A large building, or mass of buildings.

10. Same as Fagot, n., 2.

11. 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.

12. The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.

Pile [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

2. 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.

3. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

Pile-worn [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the pile worn off; threadbare.

Pileate [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

PIL'EATE

Pileate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having the form of a cap or cover for the head.

Pileate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Pileated

Pileated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having the form of a cap for the head.

2. Having a crest covering the pileus, or whole top of the head.

Piled [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having a pile or point; pointed.

2. Having a pile or nap.

3. Formed from a pile or fagot; as, piled iron.

Piled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Pile

Pilei [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Pileus

Pileiform [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the form of a pileus or cap; pileate.

Pilement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An accumulation. [Not used.]

Pilement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An accumulation; a heap.

Pilenta [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Pilentum

Pilentum [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An easy chariot or carriage, used by Roman ladies, and in which the vessels, etc., for sacred rites were carried.

Pileorhiza [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A cap of cells which covers the growing extremity of a root; a rootcap.

Pileous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Consisting of, or covered with, hair; hairy; pilose.

Piler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who piles or forms a heap.

Piler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who places things in a pile.

Piles [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

plural The hemorrhoids, a disease.

Piles [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.]

Piles Encyclopedia Britannica

PILES. See Haemorrhoids.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 19, p. 90
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Pileus [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A kind of skull cap of felt.

2. The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.

3. The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.

Pileworm [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A worm found in piles in Holland.

Pileworm [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The teredo.

Pilewort [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant of the genus Ranunculus.

Pilewort [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A plant (Ranunculus Ficaria of Linnaeus) whose tuberous roots have been used in poultices as a specific for the piles.

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Exodus 8:14

And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.

They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.

Exodus 15:8

And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

Joshua 7:26

And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.

And they heaped over Achan a large pile of rocks that remains to this day. So the LORD turned from His burning anger. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.

Joshua 8:29

And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.

He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.

Judges 9:49

And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.

Judges 15:5

And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.

Then he lit the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, burning up the piles of grain and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

Judges 15:16

And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

Then Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men.”

2 Samuel 18:17

And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.

They took Absalom, cast him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled, each to his home.

2 Kings 10:8

And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king’s sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.

When the messenger arrived, he told Jehu, “They have brought the heads of the sons of the king.” And Jehu ordered, “Pile them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.

2 Kings 16:7

So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.

So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hands of the kings of Aram and Israel, who are rising up against me.”

2 Kings 16:10

And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.

Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria. On seeing the altar in Damascus, King Ahaz sent Uriah the priest a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction.

2 Kings 19:25

Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.

1 Chronicles 5:6

Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.

and Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria carried into exile.

1 Chronicles 5:26

And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.

So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. And he brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this day.

2 Chronicles 28:20

And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

Then Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came to Ahaz but afflicted him rather than strengthening him.

Ezra 6:11

Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.

I also decree that if any man interferes with this directive, a beam is to be torn from his house and raised up, and he is to be impaled on it. And his own house shall be made a pile of rubble for this offense.

Nehemiah 10:24

Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,

Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,

Job 27:16

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,

Psalms 33:7

He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.