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A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other
animal. |
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To strike; to peck. |
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To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. |
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The bell, or boom, of the bittern |
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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. |
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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. |
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One who wields a bill; a billman. |
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A pickax, or mattock. |
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The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond
the fluke. |
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To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything)
with a bill. |
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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. |
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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. |
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A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for
enactment; a proposed or projected law. |
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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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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. |
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Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill
of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare,
etc. |
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To advertise by a bill or public notice. |
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To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods. |
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