bill

1. n. A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal. Source: opted

2. v. i. To strike; to peck. Source: opted

3. v. i. To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. Source: opted

4. n. The bell, or boom, of the bittern Source: opted

5. n. 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. Source: opted

6. n. 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. Source: opted

7. n. One who wields a bill; a billman. Source: opted

8. n. A pickax, or mattock. Source: opted

9. n. The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke. Source: opted

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

11. n. 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. Source: opted

12. n. 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. Source: opted

13. n. A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law. Source: opted

14. 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. Source: opted

15. n. An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill. Source: opted

16. n. Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc. Source: opted

17. v. t. To advertise by a bill or public notice. Source: opted

18. v. t. To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods. Source: opted

Thesaurus links