(n.) Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material.
(n.) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block.
(n.) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.
(n.) A kind of plain, coarse fustian.
(v. t.) To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support; as, to pillow the head.
Example Sentences:
(1) And we hit the pillow saying, 'I didn't get enough done.'"
(2) Care of the experimental babies included supporting the head on a small water pillow and supporting the torso at the same level to avoid flexion or curvature of the spine; the control group received customary care.
(3) Twenty-two of the experimental group completed one year of dust avoidance and 19 of these tolerated the use of plastic mattress and pillow covers.
(4) She might as well have got into a pillow fight with Mike Tyson – fun to watch, but the result scarcely in doubt.
(5) Regardless of how many pillows I piled under my knees, it bubbled up until it hit a crescendo.
(6) I woke up at about three in the morning, lying in bed, with my pillow propped up, and wrote four pages.
(7) The bedclothes and pillows of each subject were laundered and vacuum-cleaned and a plastic cover applied to the mattress for six weeks in an attempt to reduce exposure to mites.
(8) Poroshenko told the Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, the country would always have to sleep “with a revolver under the pillow” given the threat from the east.
(9) Ignorance of the scale of the challenge can sometimes be bliss, he added: “You can be halfway up the mountain before you realise what the challenges are.” Stapleton’s keynote speech was followed by a panel discussion by the owners of three very different businesses: Joanna Montgomery, who founded Little Riot , which makes Pillow Talk wristbands; Nick Edwards, founder of software company Papaya Resources ; and Arpana Gandhi, who founded Disarmco , a company that has developed a safe way of disposing of landmines and other unexploded ordnance (explosive weapons).
(10) It was as if someone was putting a pillow over my face and trying to suffocate me every minute and a half throughout the night.
(11) A strain of T. cutaneum was isolated from 1 patient's pillow.
(12) Sleeping on the space station is a question merely of floating, "no need for a mattress or pillow", Hadfield writes.
(13) When James lay down to sleep, he retched from the smell then ran out the door with his pillow to throw it away, everyone laughing.
(14) Through the proper positioning of pillows, a patient is supported above the surface of the bed with free space between the bony prominences and the bed surface.
(15) The effect of a wedge-shaped pillow (Ozzlo pillow) was compared with a standard hospital pillow, used to support the abdomen of a pregnant woman while lying on her side, in preventing or alleviating backache and backache-related insomnia; 92 women at 36 weeks' gestation completed the study.
(16) The abduction pillow can in no way be used for prevention.
(17) Therefore, we conclude that a heart level pillow may reduce one common and important error in the indirect measurement of blood pressure.
(18) The procedure involves the combined principle of rigidly placed support under the urethra to which is attached an inflatable, adjustable pillow, allowing for fine control of the urethral resistance.
(19) Two shelters have been set up on Hudson Street, and people are being asked for blankets, pillows and other items to help make the evacuated more comfortable.
(20) 101 children in Tromsö, Norway, treated with the Frejka pillow for 4.5 months because of neonatal hip instability (NHI) were compared with 307 children in Malmö, Sweden, treated with the von Rosen splint for 3 months.
Wanger
Definition:
(n.) A pillow for the cheek; a pillow.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There comes a time during the making of a movie when the actors become the characters they play," Wanger noted in his diary.
(2) Taylor was in London where she was completing Suddenly, Last Summer (in which she brilliantly played Katharine Hepburn's mentally-disturbed niece), when the producer Walter Wanger offered her the title role in Cleopatra.
(3) In 1939 Schulberg was hired by Walter Wanger to develop a screenplay for United Artists, set at the annual Dartmouth winter carnival.
(4) But the patients showing high levels of 6KPG in the acute stage showed lower levels of CPK and lower Wanger's QRS score than the patients showing low levels of 6KPG.