Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
PILLOWS
Noun
pillows
plural of pillow
Anagrams
• Spillow
Proper noun
Pillows
plural of Pillow
Anagrams
• Spillow
Source: Wiktionary
PILLOW
Pil"low, n. Etym: [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. Shak.
2. (Mach.)
Definition: A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. [R.]
3. (Naut.)
Definition: 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. bĂĽre 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.
Pil"low, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pillowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Pillowing.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
6 May 2025
HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
Coffee Trivia