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Bill :: Bill (v. t.) To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill..

Billhook :: Billhook (n.) A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter..

Billet :: Billet (n.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.

Billet :: Billet (v. t.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses..

Seta :: Seta (n.) One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.

Dertrotheca :: Dertrotheca (n.) The horny covering of the end of the bill of birds.

Latirostres :: Latirostres (n. pl.) The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies..

Ivory-bill :: Ivory-bill (n.) A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States..

Picariae :: Picariae (n. pl.) An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds..

Brevirostrate :: Brevirostrate (a.) Short-billed; having a short beak.

Payee :: Payee (n.) The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange, under Bill..

Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.

Reexchange :: Reexchange (n.) The expense chargeable on a bill of exchange or draft which has been dishonored in a foreign country, and returned to the country in which it was made or indorsed, and then taken up..

Billets-doux :: Billets-doux (pl. ) of Billet-dou.

Bill Holder :: Bill holder () A device by means of which bills, etc., are held..

Billboard :: Billboard (n.) A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on..

Nib :: Nib (n.) The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.

Shoveler :: Shoveler (n.) A river duck (Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (S. rhynchotis), is a similar species..

Torsibillty :: Torsibillty (n.) The tendency, as of a rope, to untwist after being twisted..

Epignathous :: Epignathous (a.) Hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower.

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