| bill | (/), n. [OE. bile, bille, AS. bile beak of a bird, proboscis; cf. Ir. & Gael. bil, bile, mouth, lip, bird's bill. Cf. Bill a weapon.]
A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal. Milton.
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| bill | , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Billed (/); p. pr. & vb. n. Billing.] 1.
To strike; to peck. [Obs.]
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2.
To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. As pigeons bill. Shak.
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To bill and coo, to interchange caresses; -- said of doves; also of demonstrative lovers. Thackeray.
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| bill | , n.
The bell, or boom, of the bittern
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-The bittern's hollow bill was heard. Wordsworth.
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| bill | , n. [OE. bil, AS. bill, bil; akin to OS. bil sword, OHG. bill pickax, G. bille. Cf. Bill bea/.] 1.
A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.
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2.
A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.
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-France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows end bills. Macaulay.
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3.
One who wields a bill; a billman. Strype.
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4.
A pickax, or mattock. [Obs.]
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5. (Naut.)
The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
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| bill | (/), v. t.
To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
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| bill | , n. [OE. bill, bille, fr. LL. billa (or OF. bille), for L. bulla anything rounded, LL., seal, stamp, letter, edict, roll; cf. F. bille a ball, prob. fr. Ger.; cf. MHG. bickel, D. bikkel, dice. Cf. Bull papal edict, Billet a paper.]
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1. (Law)
A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
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A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document. [Eng.]
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| bill | , v. t. 1.
To advertise by a bill or public notice.
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2.
To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.
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