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Pilled

Man with bandages around his head who is about to take a pill is handed a glass of water.
Man with bandages around his head who is about to take a pill is handed a glass of water.
Illustrations
Text sheet with a list of pill gifts and presents in the delivery room, given by provinces and cities to Prince William Frederik at his baptism on September 17, 1772. Below is a list of all sellers in various cities where this list is available.
Text sheet with a list of pill gifts and presents in the delivery room, given by provinces and cities to Prince William Frederik at his baptism on September 17, 1772. Below is a list of all sellers in various cities where this list is available.
Silver medal. Front: in foreground: enema, mortar, pestle, pill box, lick jar, pills and other pharmacy supplies; in background: plant in a pot with an ear, decorated with a coat of arms and pestle with mortar, on which the year is written; cut-off: inscription. Reverse: empty field within legend.
Silver medal. Front: in foreground: enema, mortar, pestle, pill box, lick jar, pills and other pharmacy supplies; in background: plant in a pot with an ear, decorated with a coat of arms and pestle with mortar, on which the year is written; cut-off: inscription. Reverse: empty field within legend.
IVDITH. LODOWICI. PILL. IMP. VXOR (Judith, 2nd wife of Louis the Pious)
IVDITH. LODOWICI. PILL. IMP. VXOR (Judith, 2nd wife of Louis the Pious)
Illustration for Boccaccio's Decameron, history LXXVI. Calandrin spits out a pill made from dog poo and is booed by children.
Illustration for Boccaccio's Decameron, history LXXVI. Calandrin spits out a pill made from dog poo and is booed by children.
A Dutch minister sitting at a table with a box of truth pills in his hand. Design for a political cartoon.
A Dutch minister sitting at a table with a box of truth pills in his hand. Design for a political cartoon.
A pillbox (inrô) of black lacquer and a decoration of cherry blossom, rests on a partially unfolded fan. The long months for the year 1798 are shown on the flat belt button (netsuke) of the pill box. With two poems.
Pill box and fan
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Pilled
    Stripped of hair; scant of hair; bald. "Pilled beard."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. pilled
    Stripped of hair; bald.
  2. pilled
    Having scanty hair.
  3. pilled
    Threadbare; hence, forlorn.
Quotations
Robert Louis Stevenson
Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.
Joe E. Lewis
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
Joan Welsh
Sir Samuel Garth
Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.
Sir Samuel Garth
Idioms

Bitter pill to swallow - A bitter pill to swallow is something that is hard to accept.

Poison pill - A poison pill is a strategy designed to prevent a company from being take over.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary See 3rd Pill

Usage in the news

LONDON (AP) — Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says. usatoday.com

We have heard about all the pills that make men longer and thicker for "her pleasure". therockstation99x.com

Pill found wrapped in foil. mur.com

'I take four to five pills a day,' Tide's McClain says of his battle with Crohn's disease. blog.al.com

Watch inmate's stash of 256 pills fall from her crotch . blog.chron.com

Novartis Fights India for Cancer Pill. online.wsj.com

Popular Sleeping Pill Ambien Linked to Increased Death Rate . usnews.com

A new study has linked popular sleeping pills such as Ambien and Restoril with a nearly five-fold increased risk of early death. usnews.com

Popular Sleeping Pill Ambien Linked to Increased Death Rate. usnews.com

In clinical studies, people taking sleeping pills slept only about 20 to 40 minutes more than those taking a placebo. oprah.com

MC0003, Beyond Pills, Michael Yapko. psychotherapynetworker.org

Other women also have reported diminished libido as a consequence of Yaz and other birth control pills. courant.com

Edie Falco and Alison Pill will star in an Off Broadway production of Chloe Moss' play "This Wide Night" in the spring. variety.com

New Study Doubts Fish Oil Pills. mensfitness.com

Gallbladder risk no higher with newer 'pill'. chicagotribune.com

Usage in scientific papers

Theirs energies have been reduced by pilling up 6 µm mylar foils between the source and the scintillator. A GEANT 4 simulation of α particles emitted by 241Am and crossing several foils of mylar has been done in order to determine the expected α energy spectrum (figure 3).
The BiPo detector for ultralow radioactivity measurements

Diabetes was defined as a “yes” to a question asking about use of insulin or pills for diabetes.
Statistical adjustment for a measure of healthy lifestyle doesn't yield the truth about hormone therapy

Kelly and Terry Pilling, Characterization of the Distribution of Twin Primes, math.
Implications of a New Characterisation of the Distribution of Twin Primes

Science policy for the next 50 years: From guns to pills to brains.
Lessons From the Physics-Education Reform Effort

In any case, the peculiarities of the quantum mechanics of highly entangled particle pairs seem much less mysterious in this picture, once one swallows the very large pill of the odd metric, essentially a one-dimensional universal wormhole.
A Scenario for Strong Gravity without Extra Dimensions

Usage in literature

Often, however, the pills are not innocent; the pill fiend buys the tablets and pills direct from the druggist. "Evening Round Up" by William Crosbie Hunter

Then we take a liver pill when we ought to clean out the pores instead. "The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing" by Joseph Triemens

One little pill ain't much when you take in how she's been tantalized. "Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches" by Ruth McEnery Stuart

When he swung at the Pill, you expected to hear something Snap. "Ade's Fables" by George Ade

Course, he's an old pill, but he's got all kinds of dough. "Torchy and Vee" by Sewell Ford

I'm Pill, the new minister. "Prairie Folks" by Hamlin Garland

I'm Pill, the new minister. "Other Main-Travelled Roads" by Hamlin Garland

His pills, his almanacs, or shoes. "Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama" by E. Cobham Brewer

Have you tried the shilling bottles of gout and rheumatic pills? "The Independence of Claire" by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

He succeeds in deceiving two of the faculty, getting a pill from one, and a piece of gold from the other. "The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan" by James Morier

Usage in poetry
GRANDMOTHER.
Well, well, children!
But you've heard all my stories. Let me see,--
Did I never tell you how the smuggler murdered
The woman down at Pill?
"O, stay," the maiden said, "A rest
Pray give us! What with 'Bixby's Best,'
And 'Simmons' Pills,' we're like to die."
He only answered, "Will you try--SAPOLIO?"
What ho! sickly people of high and low degree
I pray ye all be warned by me;
No matter what may be your bodily ills
The safest and quickest cure is Beecham's Pills.
"And now, I must take either poison or blue-pill,
For things cannot last very long as they are."
He ceased, as the exquisite form of a pupil
Dawned upon him, serene as a beautiful star.
They cramm'd their gracious master
With potion and with pill;
They drench'd him and they bled him;
They could not cure his ill.
"Go fetch," says he, "my lawyer,
I'd better make my will."
Don't they know that I promised to die!
I'm keping in practice.
I'm merely staying in shape.
The pills are a mother, but better,
every color and as good as sour balls.
I'm on a diet from death.