pil·low (p l  )n.1. A cloth case, stuffed with something soft, such as down, feathers, or foam rubber, used to cushion the head, especially during sleep. 2. A decorative cushion. 3. The pad on which bobbin lace is made. v. pil·lowed, pil·low·ing, pil·lows v.tr.1. To rest (one's head) on or as if on a pillow. 2. To serve as a pillow for: Grass pillowed my head. v.intr.1. To rest on or as if on a pillow. 2. To assume the shape of a pillow.
[Middle English, from Old English pyle, from West Germanic *pulw , from Latin pulvnus.]
pillow·y adj. |
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| Muldoon's voice, coming to him from quite near, from so near that he seemed presently to see her as kneeling on the ground before him while he lay looking up at her; himself not wholly on the ground, but half-raised and upheld - conscious, yes, of tenderness of support and, more particularly, of a head pillowed in extraordinary softness and faintly refreshing fragrance. Wine that recalls the glow of spring, Upon the thatch a sudden shower, A gentle scholar in the bower, Where tall bamboos their shadows fling, White clouds in heavens newly clear, And wandering wings through depths of trees, Then pillowed in green shade, he sees A torrent foaming to the mere; Around his dreams the dead leaves fall; Calm as the starred chrysanthemum, He notes the season glories come, And reads the books that never pall. All the car was singing a score of songs at once, and Bert, his head pillowed on Mary's breast with her arms around him, started "On the Banks of the Wabash. |