Pillow

n.	1.	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. [Resty sloth] finds the down pillow hard. - Shak.
	2.	(Mach.) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block.
	3.	(Naut.) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.
	4.	A kind of plain, coarse fustian. Lace pillow a cushion used in making hand-wrought lace. Pillow bier a pillowcase; pillow slip. Pillow block (Mach.) a block, or standard, for supporting a journal, as of a shaft. It is usually bolted to the frame or foundation of a machine, and is often furnished with journal boxes, and a movable cover, or cap, for tightening the bearings by means of bolts; - called also pillar block, or plumber block. - Chaucer. Pillow lace handmade lace wrought with bobbins upon a lace pillow. Pillow of a plow a crosspiece of wood which serves to raise or lower the beam. Pillow sham an ornamental covering laid over a pillow when not in use. Pillow slip a pillowcase.
v. t.	1.	To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support; as, to pillow the head. [imp. & p. p. Pillowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pillowing.] Pillows his chin upon an orient wave. - Milton.

Noun	1.	pillow - a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person
Verb	1.	pillow - rest on or as if on a pillow; "pillow your head" Synonyms: rest

To see a pillow in your dream, represents comfort. Relaxation, ease, and/or luxury. It may indicates laziness or on the other hand, a need to take it easy on yourself. To dream that you are lying on a pillow, suggests that you are in need of some mental support.afford support, air mattress, back, back up, bear, bear up, bedding, blubber, bolster up, brace, breeze, buoy up, butter, buttress, carry, clay, cradle, crutch, dough, down, eiderdown, feather bed, feathers, fleece, floss, flue, fluff, foam, give support, hold, hold up, innerspring mattress, kapok, keep afloat, keep up, lend support, litter, mainstay, maintain, mat, mattress, pad, pallet, plush, prop, pudding, puff, putty, reinforce, rubber, rug, satin, shore, shore up, shoulder, silk, sleeping bag, springs, stay, subsidize, subvention, support, sustain, swansdown, thistledown, underbed, underbedding, underbrace, undergird, underlie, underpin, underset, upbear, uphold, upkeep, velvet, wax, wool, zephyr

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