PILLED

Adjective

pilled (comparative more pilled, superlative most pilled)

(slang) In a state of believing, especially from evidence but not necessarily.

Verb

pilled

simple past tense and past participle of pill

Source: Wiktionary

Pilled, a. Etym: [See 3rd Pill.]

Definition: Stripped of hair; scant of hair; bald. [Obs.] "Pilled beard." Chaucer.

PILL

Pill, n. Etym: [Cf. Peel skin, or Pillion.]

Definition: The peel or skin. [Obs.] "Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts." Holland.

Pill, v. i.

Definition: To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

Pill, v. t. Etym: [Cf. L. pilare to deprive of hair, and E. pill, n. (above).]

1. To deprive of hair; to make bald. [Obs.]

2. To peel; to make by removing the skin. [Jacob] pilled white streaks . . . in the rods. Gen. xxx. 37.

Pill, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Pilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Pilling.] Etym: [F. piller, L. pilare; cf. It. pigliare to take. Cf. Peel to plunder.]

Definition: To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder. [Obs.] Spenser. Pillers and robbers were come in to the field to pill and to rob. Sir T. Malroy.

Pill, n. Etym: [F. pilute, L. pilula a pill, little ball, dim. of L. pila a ball. Cf. Piles.]

1. A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.

2. Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured. Udall. Pill beetle (Zoöl.), any small beetle of the genus Byrrhus, having a rounded body, with the head concealed beneath the thorax.

– Pill bug (Zoöl.), any terrestrial isopod of the genus Armadillo, having the habit of rolling itself into a ball when disturbed. Called also pill wood louse.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

PILLED

Adjective

Verb

PILL

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