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pilled, ppl. a. arch. and dial.|pɪld|
Forms: α. 4–5 piled, pyled. β. 4–7 pild, 5 pyllyd, pillid, 5– pilled, (6 pyld(e, pylled, pield, 6–7 pilde, pilld).
[f. pill v.1 + -ed1.]
1. Stripped of skin, bark, rind, etc.; decorticated, excoriated: = peeled 4. Obs. or dial.
pilled barley, decorticated, hulled, or pot barley (quot. 1382); but see another sense in b.
1382Wyclif 2 Sam. xvii. 19 Driynge pild barli [Vulg. quasi siccans ptisanas; 1388 with the pile takun a-wey]. c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 14 Take pilled garlek and herbys anon. 1573–80Baret Alv. P 360 Pilled, decorticatus. 1634Canne Necess. Separ. (1849) 21 Some there are that beg more craftily..and..offer pilled rods to passengers, to get a piece of money therewith. 1778Eng. Gazetteer s.v. Okeley, The poor people..draw pill'd rushes thro' melted grease, to save the expence of candles. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Pilled, pared, stripped.
b. pilled barley, pilled oats, varieties of these cereals in which the grain is free from the husk or glumes; naked barley, naked oats: cf. pilcorn.
1578Lyte Dodoens iv. xiii. 467 The seconde kinde may be called in Englishe Pilcorne, or pylde Otes. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 565 Mixt prouander..will be verie good if it be sowne with pilde barley.
2. Deprived or bereft of hair, feathers, etc.; bald, shaven, tonsured: = peeled 2. Obs. or dial.
c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 15 As piled as an Ape was his skulle. Ibid. 386 She..smoot the Millere on the pyled skulle [v.rr. piled, pylede, pilede, pilled]. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 22 Euer after, whanne the pie sawe a balled or a pilled man. 1533J. Heywood Merry Play (1830) 15 A very myschyefe Lyght on the pylde preest. 1611Coryat Crudities 41 The ostriches..their..legs..are pilled and bare. 1611Cotgr., Pelé, pild, haireless, bauld. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 88 A round white pil'd or smooth Chin. 1665R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales 13 His eyes so effeminately pilled, his shooes artifically carved. 1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 198 To make bald or pilled, depilare. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Pilled, to be made bald.
b. Of fibres or fabric: see pill v. 6 c.
†3. Bare; bare of nap, threadbare; bare of pasture; poor; miserable: = peeled 3. Obs.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 143 One..bad go pisse him with his plouh, pillede [B. for-pyned] screwe! a1548Hall Chron., Rich. III 40 Appareled in a pilled blacke cloke. 1556Withals Dict. (1568) 10 b/2 Pilled or bare (grounde), as vnfertile grounde. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 631 Bloud is a slippery foundation, and pillage a pill'd wall.
†b. fig. Beggarly, meagre, bald. Obs.
1526Tindale Parable Wicked Mammon (1528) H iij b, The vayne disputyng of them that ascrybe so hye a place in heuen vnto theyr pylde merytes. 1553Becon Reliques of Rome (1563) 163 A pylde and beggarly ceremony. 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. i. i, I am no such pild Cinike to beleeue, That beggery is the onely happinesse. 1605M. Sutcliffe Brief Exam. 58 note, They laugh at this pild prologue that would threape kindnesse upon them.
4. [f. pill v.1 1.] Plundered, robbed, pillaged: = peeled 1. arch. or dial.
1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) 34 The temples pylled dothe bytterly complayne. 1535Coverdale Isa. xviii. 2 To a fearful people,..to a desperate and pylled folke. [Cf. peeled 5.] 1611Cotgr., Pillé, pilled, rauaged, ransacked, robbed, despoyled, or bereaued of all. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Pilled, robbed.
5. Comb. (from 2), as pilled-pated, pilled-skinned, etc.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 227 b, The pield pated Theodore of Tharsus was a briber and a theefe. 1563Becon Displ. Popish Mass Wks. iii. 44 That thing which y⊇ pilde⁓pate Priest holdeth vp in his handes. 1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 232 For these..persons are of body ill⁓favoured, leane, dry, lanke, pilde-skinned, and without haire.
Hence ˈpilledness, baldness, bareness, threadbareness.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. iii. (Bodl. MS.) lf. 48/2 But somme for oþer skallednes oþer pilledness leue and beþ isene alwaye þerafter. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. cxvi. 310 Euphorbium..cureth..pyldenesse, causing the heare to renewe and growe againe. 1600Hakluyt Voy. (1810) III. 211 Some scorned the pildnesse of his [Columbus's] garments. 1656W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. ⁋304. 83 Pilledness, baldness, hoaryness, arise from the want of radical moisture. |