pillow

[pil·low]

A pillow is something you rest your head on while you sleep. Or, during a slumber party, a pillow could be used as a weapon.

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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.

Noun
a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person

Verb
rest on or as if on a pillow; "pillow your head"

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.

Pillow

Pil"low , n. [OE. pilwe, AS. pyle, fr. L. pilvinus.] 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.

2. (Mach.) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. [R.] 3. (Naut.) 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 [OE. pilwebere; cf. LG. b'81re 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.

Pillow

Pil"low , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pillowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pillowing.] To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support; as, to pillow the head.

Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.

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.

To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support; as, to pillow the head.

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Usage Examples

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

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Other Usage Examples

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.

I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.