pillion

A pad behind the saddle of a horse for a second rider.

It was all the greater triumph to Miss Nancy Lammeter's beauty that she looked thoroughly bewitching in that costume, as, seated on the pillion behind her tall, erect father, she held one arm round him, and looked down, with open-eyed anxiety, at the treacherous snow-covered pools and puddles, which sent up formidable splashings of mud under the stamp of Dobbin's foot.

A similar second saddle on a motorcycle for a passenger.

The person riding in the pillion.

The cushion of a saddle.

Riding behind the driving rider, as when positioned on the rump of a mount.

To ride on a pillion.

When he had gazed at the stars sufficiently as they shone over his mistress's window, and put her candle to bed, re repaired to his own dormitory, and there, no doubt, thought of his Maria andhis horse with youthful satisfaction, and how sweet it would be to have one pillioned on the other, and to make the tour of all the island on such an animal with such a pair of white arms round his waist.

A ferlie (fairy) he spied with his ee, And there he saw a lady bright, Come riding down by the Elldon tree"— a lady who had "fifty siller bells and nine" on each lock of her horse's mane, and who pillioned Thomas the Rhymer, and took him, "red blude to the knee," thorugh the mirk, mirk night, to the place where "They saw neither sun nor moon."

To put a pillion on a horse.

Accordingly, he saddled and pillioned his horse, thinking he might have the honor of bringing the bride himself.

But ordher one iv yer men to pillion the horse in a jiffy, for onct we get hoult iv the money bags, we must be off, or Tom Riddle won't lave a bone in my body but he'll break into smithereens.