meaning of bill
1. To strike; to peck.
2. To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.
3. The bell, or boom, of the bittern
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. One who wields a bill; a billman.
7. A pickax, or mattock.
8. The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
9. To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
13. 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.
14. An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditors claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocers bill.
15. Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.
16. To advertise by a bill or public notice.
17. To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.
18. A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
19. A person who holds a bill or acceptance.
20. A device by means of which bills, etc. , are held.
21. 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.
22. One who negotiates the discount of bills.
23. the entertainment offered at a public presentation
Related Words
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