Word Meanings - THREE-PILED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having the quality of three-pile; best; most costly. Thou art good velvet; thou 'rt three-piled piece. Shak. 2. Fig.: Extravagant; exaggerated; high-flown. "Three-piled hyperboles." Shak. 3. Accustomed to wearing three-pile; hence, of high rank,

Additional info about word: THREE-PILED

1. Having the quality of three-pile; best; most costly. Thou art good velvet; thou 'rt three-piled piece. Shak. 2. Fig.: Extravagant; exaggerated; high-flown. "Three-piled hyperboles." Shak. 3. Accustomed to wearing three-pile; hence, of high rank, or wealth. "Three-piled people." Beau. & Fl.

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• PILPUL
  Among the Jews, penetrating investigation, disputation, and drawing of conclusions, esp. in Talmudic study. -- Pil"pul*ist , n. --Pil`pul*is"tic , a.
• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• PILLER
  One who pills or plunders.
• WEARIABLE
  That may be wearied.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• WEARING
  1. The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing. Latimer. 2. That which is worn; clothes; garments. Give me my nightly wearing and adieu. Shak.
• PILOT VALVE
  A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• THREE-MILE
  Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt of three miles included in territorial waters of a state.
• WEARILY
  In a weary manner.
• THREE-PILE
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
• PILLARED
  Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars. "The pillared arches." Sir W. Scott. "Pillared flame." Thomson.
• VELVETBREAST
  The goosander.
• PILOTAGE
  1. The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. The compensation made or allowed to a pilot. 3. Guidance, as by a pilot. Sir W. Scott.
• PILFERY
  Petty theft. Sir T. North.
• THREE-DECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• THREE-SIDED
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• MAINSWEAR
  To swear falsely. Blount.
• EXPILATOR
  One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager. Sir T. Browne.
• PAPILLARY
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillæ; bearing, or covered with, papillæ; papillose.
• LAPILLATION
  The state of being, or the act of making, stony.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• EPILOGUIZE
  See EPILOGIZE
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• PAPILLIFORM
  Shaped like a papilla; mammilliform.