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Pillow   /pˈɪloʊ/   Listen
Pillow

noun
1.
A cushion to support the head of a sleeping person.
verb
(past & past part. pillowed; pres. part. pillowing)
1.
Rest on or as if on a pillow.  Synonym: rest.



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"Pillow" Quotes from Famous Books



... I would not fail, and quitted the hospital. When I called again upon him, I found him very low and weak; he could not raise himself from his pillow. "I feel that I am going now, Jack," said he—"going very fast—I have not many hours to live; but, I thank Heaven, I am not in any pain. A man who dies in agony cannot examine himself—cannot survey the past with ...
— Poor Jack • Frederick Marryat

... Gertrude die: She left off breathing, and no more I smoothed the pillow beneath her head. She was more beautiful than before, Like violets faded were her eyes; By this we knew that she was dead! Through the open window looked the skies Into the chamber where she lay, And the wind was like the sound of wings, ...
— Daisy's Necklace - And What Came of It • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... flash, she caught up a pillow, holding it out sharply in front of her, whirling it around like a steering wheel, while she pushed with both feet on imaginary clutches and ...
— Eve to the Rescue • Ethel Hueston

... and pillow bought on his way through the town, Johnny disposed himself for the night under the nose of the plane with the wheels of the landing gear at his back. He was not by nature a suspicious young man, but he knew Bland Halliday; and to know Bland was to ...
— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower

... farewell! Our work is done—we are weary and worn out, and in need of rest— may the rest of the blessed be our portion!—and in the sleep that all must sleep, beneath the cold blanket of the kirkyard grass, and on that clay pillow where we must shortly lay our heads, may we have pleasant dreams, till we are awakened to partake of the everlasting banquet ...
— The Annals of the Parish • John Galt


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