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Webster 1913 Edition
Piles
Piles
,Noun.
pl.
[L.
pila
a ball. Cf. Pill
a medicine.] (Med.)
The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called
hemorrhoids
. See Hemorrhoids
. [The singular
pile
is sometimes used.]Blind piles
, hemorrhoids which do not bleed.
Webster 1828 Edition
Piles
PILES
,Noun.
plu.