The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
pills
plural of pill
pills
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pill
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Source: Wiktionary
Pill, n. Etym: [Cf. Peel skin, or Pillion.]
Definition: The peel or skin. [Obs.] "Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts." Holland.
Pill, v. i.
Definition: To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
Pill, v. t. Etym: [Cf. L. pilare to deprive of hair, and E. pill, n. (above).]
1. To deprive of hair; to make bald. [Obs.]
2. To peel; to make by removing the skin. [Jacob] pilled white streaks . . . in the rods. Gen. xxx. 37.
Pill, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Pilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Pilling.] Etym: [F. piller, L. pilare; cf. It. pigliare to take. Cf. Peel to plunder.]
Definition: To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder. [Obs.] Spenser. Pillers and robbers were come in to the field to pill and to rob. Sir T. Malroy.
Pill, n. Etym: [F. pilute, L. pilula a pill, little ball, dim. of L. pila a ball. Cf. Piles.]
1. A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
2. Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured. Udall. Pill beetle (Zoöl.), any small beetle of the genus Byrrhus, having a rounded body, with the head concealed beneath the thorax.
– Pill bug (Zoöl.), any terrestrial isopod of the genus Armadillo, having the habit of rolling itself into a ball when disturbed. Called also pill wood louse.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 May 2025
(noun) the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity
The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.