bill
(noun) the entertainment offered at a public presentation
beak, bill, neb, nib, pecker
(noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird
bill, peak, eyeshade, visor, vizor
(noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes; âhe pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged aheadâ
bill, billhook
(noun) a cutting tool with a sharp edge; âhe used a bill to prune branches off of the treeâ
bill
(noun) a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)
bill, account, invoice
(noun) an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered; âhe paid his bill and leftâ; âsend me an account of what I oweâ
bill, measure
(noun) a statute in draft before it becomes law; âthey held a public hearing on the billâ
poster, posting, placard, notice, bill, card
(noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; âa poster advertised the coming attractionsâ
circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer, throwaway
(noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; âhe mailed the circular to all subscribersâ
bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback
(noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); âhe peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notesâ
bill
(verb) advertise especially by posters or placards; âHe was billed as the greatest tenor since Carusoâ
placard, bill
(verb) publicize or announce by placards
charge, bill
(verb) demand payment; âWill I get charged for this service?â; âWe were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nightsâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bill (plural bills)
Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
Synonym: polearm
A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
Synonyms: billhook, hand bill, hedge bill
Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
Synonym: billman
A pickaxe, or mattock.
(nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
bill (third-person singular simple present bills, present participle billing, simple past and past participle billed)
(transitive) To dig, chop, etc, with a bill.
bill (plural bills)
The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
Synonyms: beak, neb, nib, pecker
A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
bill (third-person singular simple present bills, present participle billing, simple past and past participle billed)
(obsolete) to peck
to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
bill (plural bills)
A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
Synonym: measure
(obsolete, 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.
(US) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
Synonyms: account, invoice
A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
Synonyms: broadsheet, broadside, card, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, poster, posting, placard, notice, throwaway
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; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
Synonyms: bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, note
A set of items presented together.
bill (third-person singular simple present bills, present participle billing, simple past and past participle billed)
(transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
Synonym: placard
(transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
Synonym: charge
bill (plural bills)
The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
Bill
A diminutive of the male given name William.
A surname.
(British, slang) A nickname for the British constabulary. Often called "The Bill" or "Old Bill"
Source: Wiktionary
Bill, n. Etym: [OE. bile, bille, AS. bile beak of a bird, proboscis; cf. Ir. & Gael. bil, bile, mouth, lip, bird's bill. Cf. Bill a weapon.]
Definition: A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal. Milton.
Bill, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Billed; p. pr. & vb. n. Billing.]
1. To strike; to peck. [Obs.]
2. To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. "As pigeons bill." Shak. To bill and coo, to interchange caresses; -- said of doves; also of demonstrative lovers. Thackeray.
Bill, n.
Definition: The bell, or boom, of the bittern The bittern's hollow bill was heard. Wordsworth.
Bill, n. Etym: [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.
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. France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows end bills. Macaulay.
3. One who wields a bill; a billman. Strype.
4. A pickax, or mattock. [Obs.]
5. (Naut.)
Definition: The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
Bill, v. t.
Definition: To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
Bill, n. Etym: [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.]
1. (Law)
Definition: 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.
2. 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.]
Note: In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
3. A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
4. 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. She put up the bill in her parlor window. Dickens.
5. 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.
6. Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc. Bill of adventure. See under Adventure.
– Bill of costs, a statement of the items which form the total amount of the costs of a party to a suit or action.
– Bill of credit. (a) Within the constitution of the United States, a paper issued by a State, on the mere faith and credit of the State, and designed to circulate as money. No State shall "emit bills of credit." U. S. Const. Peters. Wharton. Bouvier (b) Among merchants, a letter sent by an agent or other person to a merchant, desiring him to give credit to the bearer for goods or money.
– Bill of divorce, in the Jewish law, a writing given by the husband to the wife, by which the marriage relation was dissolved. Jer. iii. 8.
– Bill of entry, a written account of goods entered at the customhouse, whether imported or intended for exportation.
– Bill of exceptions. See under Exception.
– Bill of exchange (Com.), a written order or request from one person or house to another, desiring the latter to pay to some person designated a certain sum of money therein generally is, and, to be negotiable, must be, made payable to order or to bearer. So also the order generally expresses a specified time of payment, and that it is drawn for value. The person who draws the bil is called the drawer, the person on whom it is drawn is, before acceptance, called the drawee, -- after acceptance, the acceptor; the person to whom the money is directed to be paid is called the payee. The person making the order may himself be the payee. The bill itself is frequently called a draft. See Exchange. Chitty.
– Bill of fare, a written or printed enumeration of the dishes served at a public table, or of the dishes (with prices annexed) which may be ordered at a restaurant, etc.
– Bill of health, a certificate from the proper authorities as to the state of health of a ship's company at the time of her leaving port.
– Bill of indictment, a written accusation lawfully presented to a grand jury. If the jury consider the evidence sufficient to support the accusation, they indorse it "A true bill," or "Not found," or "Ignoramus", or "Ignored." -- Bill of lading, a written account of goods shipped by any person, signed by the agent of the owner of the vessel, or by its master, acknowledging the receipt of the goods, and promising to deliver them safe at the place directed, dangers of the sea excepted. It is usual for the master to sign two, three, or four copies of the bill; one of which he keeps in possession, one is kept by the shipper, and one is sent to the consignee of the goods.
– Bill of mortality, an official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a given time; also, a district required to be covered by such statement; as, a place within the bills of mortality of London.
– Bill of pains and penalties, a special act of a legislature which inflicts a punishment less than death upon persons supposed to be guilty of treason or felony, without any conviction in the ordinary course of judicial proceedings. Bouvier. Wharton.
– Bill of parcels, an account given by the seller to the buyer of the several articles purchased, with the price of each.
– Bill of particulars (Law), a detailed statement of the items of a plaintiff's demand in an action, or of the defendant's set-off.
– Bill of rights, a summary of rights and privileges claimed by a people. Such was the declaration presented by the Lords and Commons of England to the Prince and Princess of Orange in 1688, and enacted in Parliament after they became king and queen. In America, a bill or declaration of rights is prefixed to most of the constitutions of the several States.
– Bill of sale, a formal instrument for the conveyance or transfer of goods and chattels.
– Bill of sight, a form of entry at the customhouse, by which goods, respecting which the importer is not possessed of full information, may be provisionally landed for examination.
– Bill of store, a license granted at the customhouse to merchants, to carry such stores and provisions as are necessary for a voyage, custom free. Wharton.
– Bills payable (pl.), the outstanding unpaid notes or acceptances made and issued by an individual or firm.
– Bills receivable (pl.), the unpaid promissory notes or acceptances held by an individual or firm. McElrath.
– A true bill, a bill of indictment sanctioned by a grand jury.
Bill, v. t.
1. To advertise by a bill or public notice.
2. To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., âthe father of the brideâ instead of âthe brideâs fatherâ
The word âcoffeeâ entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch âkoffie,â borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish âkahve,â borrowed in turn from the Arabic âqahwah.â The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
