Definition of bill

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Bill (n.) A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill..

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Bill :: Bill (n.) A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law..
Bill :: Bill (v. t.) To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods..
Billingsgate :: Billingsgate (n.) Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry..
Bill Book :: Bill book () A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives..
Drawee :: Drawee (n.) The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
Facies :: Facies (n.) The face of a bird, or the front of the head, excluding the bill..
Billing :: Billing (a. & n.) Caressing; kissing.
Curlew :: Curlew (n.) A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill..
Dishabille :: Dishabille (n.) An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille..
Brown Bill :: Brown bill () A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill.
Sworded :: Swordbill (n.) A humming bird (Docimastes ensiferus) having a very long, slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird..
Bill :: Bill (n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal..
Waybill :: Waybill (n.) A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill of lading..
Billow :: Billow (n.) A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind..
Clavellated :: Clavellated (a.) Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning..
Milliard :: Milliard (n.) A thousand millions; -- called also billion. See Billion.
Shrike :: Shrike (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher..
Dentirostral :: Dentirostral (a.) Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak..
Bill :: Bill (v. i.) To strike; to peck.
Billage :: Billage (n. / v. t. & i.) Same as Bilge.
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