Pillar definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PIL'LAR, n. [L. pila, a pile, a pillar, a mortar and pestle. The L. pila denotes a heap ... rules, and their parts and proportions are arbitrary. A square pillar is a massive work, called also a pier or piedroit ... commemorate any person or remarkable transaction. And Jacob set a pillar on her grave. Genesis 35. 1 Samuel 18. 4. Something resembling a pillar; as a pillar of salt. Genesis 19. So a pillar of a ...
from pillar to post definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adv 1 ... one place or situation to another; "we were driven from pillar to post" [syn: from pillar to post, hither and thither] Merriam Webster's phrasal from ... place or one predicament to another Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pillar Pil"lar, n. [OE. pilerF. pilier, LL. pilare, pilarium, pilarius, fr. L. pila a pillar. See Pile a heap.] 1. The general and popular term ... erected for a monument or an ornament. Jacob set a pillar upon her grave. --Gen. xxxv. 20. The place . . . vast ...
pillar saint definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Stylite Sty"lite, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? a pillar.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of anchorites in the ... for the exercise of their patience; -- called also pillarist and pillar saint. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pillar Pil"lar, n. [OE. pilerF. pilier, LL. pilare, pilarium, pilarius, fr. L. pila a pillar. See Pile a heap.] 1. The general and popular term ... erected for a monument or an ornament. Jacob set a pillar upon her grave. --Gen. xxxv. 20. The place . . . vast ...
pillar box definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a red pillar-shaped letter box Collin's Cobuild Dictionary also pillar-box(pillar boxes) In Britain, a pillar box is a tall red box in the street in ...
PLAIN OF THE PILLAR definitions International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ('elon mutstsbh; Codex Vaticanus reads ... the Revised Version margin we must read "terebinth of the pillar," the place where the men of Shechem and Beth-millo ... have been several near Shechem. See MEONENIM, OAK OF. "The pillar" may possibly have been the great stone which Joshua set ...
Sand pillar definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Sand grouse (Zo["o]l ... o]l.) (a) The sauger. (b) The lizard fish. Sand pillar, a sand storm which takes the form of a whirling pillar in its progress in desert tracts like those of the ...
Bundle pillar definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Bundle Bun"dle (b[u ... united in a bundle, no strength could bend. --Goldsmith. Bundle pillar (Arch.), a column or pier, with others of small dimensions ...
pillar block definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pillow Pil"low, n ... for tightening the bearings by means of bolts; -- called also pillar block, or plumber block. Pillow lace, handmade lace wrought with ...