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Bills

noun
/bɪlz/
Word Frequency: 12.3

Definitions

1.nounAny 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.
2.nounA cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
3.nounSomebody armed with a bill; a billman.
4.nounA pickaxe, or mattock.
5.nounThe extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
6.verbTo dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
7.nounThe beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
8.nounA beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
9.nounOf a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
10.verbTo peck
11.verbTo stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
12.nounA written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
13.nounA document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
14.nounA draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
15.nounA declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
16.nounA piece of paper money; a banknote.
17.nounA written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
18.nounA paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
19.nounA 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.
20.nounA set of items presented together.
21.verbTo advertise by a bill or public notice.
22.verbTo charge; to send a bill to.
23.nounThe bell, or boom, of the bittern.

Synonyms

billhookhand billhedge billbillmanpolearmbeaknebnibpeckernoticeplacardbroadsheet

Rhymes With

chillsthrillsfillsfrillsfoothillspillsgillsstills
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