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General dictionaries General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. pillory: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. pillory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. pillory: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. pillory: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. pillory: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. pillory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. pillory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. pillory: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. Pillory, pillory: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. pillory (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. pillory: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. Pillory, The Pillory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  13. Pillory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. pillory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  15. pillory: Rhymezone [home, info]
  16. Pillory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  17. pillory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  18. Pillory: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  19. pillory: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  20. pillory: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
  21. pillory: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  22. pillory: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  23. pillory: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  24. pillory: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pillory: Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary [home, info]
  2. PILLORY: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  3. Pillory: International Law Dictionary [home, info]
  4. The pillory, pillory: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pillory: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The pillory, pillory: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pillory: A Word A Day [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pillory: mda Archaeological Objects Thesaurus [home, info]

Quick definitions (pillory)

noun:  a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the neck and hands; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn
verb:  punish by putting in a pillory
verb:  expose to ridicule or public scorn
verb:  criticize harshly or violently

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