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pily

pily adjective: like pile or wool.

pily: like pile or wool
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Adjective

pily (comparative more pily, superlative most pily)

  1. Like pile or wool.
    • the thick, fine, short undercoat, or pily fur1903, Charles Henry Lane, Rabbits, Cats and Cavies
  2. Marked by many narrow piles (wedges).
    • bend pily, chief pily
    • Milles very improperly uses the term for per pale indented throughout, or barry pily.1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 48

Forms of pily

comparativemore pily
superlativemost pily

Origin of pily

From pile + -y.

Questions about pily

What does pily mean?
Pily means like pile or wool.
What part of speech is pily?
Pily is an adjective.

Words near pily in the dictionary

  1. Pilumnus
  2. pilums
  3. pilung
  4. pilungs
  5. pilus
  6. pily
  7. PIM
  8. pima
  9. Pima Bajo
  10. Pima County
  11. pimagedine

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