Crossword clues for pillow
pillow
- Bolster, e.g
- Bed cushion
- Word with hair or talk
- Where one might have a sinking feeling
- Weapon in a slumber party fight
- Sofa cushion
- It might bear down
- Head supporter in bed
- Head cushion for sleeping
- Drooled-on thing, perhaps
- Dormitory weapon
- Bedroom fighter's weapon
- A case is often made for it
- Battle where protagonists bolster each other?
- Feather-filled item
- Kind of talk
- A cushion to support the head of a sleeping person
- "___ Talk," Doris Day film
- Headrest
- "___ Talk," 1959 film
- Word with case or sham
- Medical treatment that hurts? Here's neck support
- Cheek raised on soft cushion
- Word with talk or fight
- Sleeper's headrest
- Down home?
- Bed item
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
--Milton.
Pillow \Pil"low\, n. [OE. pilwe, AS. pyle, fr. L. pilvinus.]
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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.
[Resty sloth] finds the down pillow hard.
--Shak. (Mach.) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. [R.]
(Naut.) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.
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A kind of plain, coarse fustian.
Lace pillow, a cushion used in making hand-wrought lace.
Pillow bier [OE. pilwebere; cf. LG. b["u]re 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Middle English pilwe, from Old English pyle "pillow," from West Germanic *pulwi(n) (cognates: Old Saxon puli, Middle Dutch polu, Dutch peluw, Old High German pfuliwi, German Pfühl), an early borrowing (2c. or 3c.) from Latin pulvinus "little cushion, small pillow," of uncertain origin. Modern spelling is from mid-15c. Pillow fight (n.) attested from 1837; slang pillow talk (n.) first recorded 1939.
1620s, from pillow (n.). Related: Pillowed; pillowing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A soft cushion used to support the head in bed. 2 (context geology English) A pillow lav
3 (context engineering English) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. 4 (context nautical English) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit. 5 A kind of plain, coarse fustian. v
(context transitive English) To rest as on a pillow.
WordNet
n. a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person
v. rest on or as if on a pillow; "pillow your head" [syn: rest]
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Wikipedia
A pillow is used to sleep on and support the head/neck or other parts of the body while sleeping, lying down or sitting. In addition, pillows have decorative uses and are used on beds, couches or chairs; these are also referred to as cushions.
In contemporary western culture pillows consist of a plain or patterned fabric envelope (pillowcase) which contains a soft stuffing, which may range from down feathers to synthetic foam. In other cultures, pillows have been made of wood or stone. Bed pillows are typically covered with a cloth pillowcase. Pillows used in a living room typically have a sturdy cloth cover.
There are also throw pillows (also called toss pillows or pillow shams in different worldwide dialects of English), which are pillows that are mainly decorative and not designed for support or comfort. A cushion is a soft bag filled with air or padding such as hollow fiber, feathers, foam or rubber. In the United Kingdom, pillows used on chairs and sofas are called cushions or throw cushions, with the word pillow used only for pillows on a bed. In the UK, cushions are usually square, while bed pillows are oblong.
A pillow is a cushion for the head.
Pillow may also refer to:
Theresa Jean Bell (born April 17, 1956), better known as Pillow, also known as The She-Beast, was a United States bodybuilder in the early 1980s. While competing in bodybuilding, she was also an exotic dancer in Alaska. She was crowned Miss Exotic World 1995.
"(Lay Your Head on My) Pillow" is a song by American R&B group Tony! Toni! Toné!. It was released by Mercury and Polygram Records on January 11, 1994, as the third single from their 1993 album Sons of Soul. The midtempo love ballad was written and produced by the group and recorded at Paradise Recording Studio in Sacramento, California.
"(Lay Your Head on My) Pillow" charted at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number four on the Hot R&B Singles. It was promoted with a music video wherein the group appeared nude; they conceived it as their response to criticism of male artists for sexually objectifying women in music videos
Usage examples of "pillow".
Although he suspected the accusatory look resulted more from frustration than anger, when Marguerite merely shrugged and laid back against her pillow, Germaine concluded they had taxed her limited strength enough for one day.
The Wanderer To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves, Back of old-storied spires and architraves To watch Arcturus rise or Fomalhaut, And roused by street-cries in strange tongues when day Flooded with gold some domed metropolis, Between new towers to waken and new bliss Spread on his pillow in a wondrous way: These were his joys.
The voice faded away as Josiah Bartram rested more easily upon his pillows.
In the words that Josiah Bartram uttered just before he fell back upon the pillows.
I missed my kangaroo rug and saddle for blanket and pillow, but I lighted up a good fire, and sometimes lying down, and sometimes walking about to prevent the night air from benumbing me, and occasionally having a peg at the kangaroo, making capital broils, I contrived to get through the night without losing my spirits.
One stept lightly on, and drew the bench which had lately pillowed the head of Lovel, closer to the fire, while the other, bending under the burthen in her arms, approached slower, and sitting down on the seat prepared for her, threw back her cloak, and discovered that she bore in her arms a sleeping child, about six years of age.
She lifted her head from her tear-soaked pillow and saw the leather bustier Steven had bought her.
He was delighted, on the other hand, by a woman relating the story of her daughter running into the parlor after finding a daddy longlegs on her pillow.
A two-foot-long, bulky piece of maguey stalk had been carved so that the porous tissue served as a pillow, or a neckrest.
Miss Marling declined this offer with every evidence of loathing, and releasing his lordship, hunted under her pillow for a handkerchief, and fiercely blew her small nose.
And under the pillow in the bedroom was a bag of old-fashioned marshmallow eggs for me.
I ever tell you about the patient I had at Metro who tried to take two pillows home with her?
I was seated on the parados blowing up an air pillow which had been sent to me by an English friend and watching the fight up at Souchez when Bill came up to me.
She tucked her hands under the pillows--lots of pillows--more pillows than a normal person would have--pillows that a paraplegic needed to hold one position or another.
And then, yielding to meditations of future success, partaking strongly of the inexperienced and sanguine temperament of the soliloquist, Clarence passed the hours till his pillow summoned him to dreams no less ardent and perhaps no less unreal.