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Bill

Noun

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1.NounA written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
2.NounA document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
3.NounA draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
"Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the Prime Minister, I beg to introduce a bill entitled […]"
4.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.
5.NounA piece of paper money; a banknote. One hundred dollars.
6.NounOne hundred dollars.
7.NounOne hundred pounds sterling.
8.NounA written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge owing; an invoice.
"He received a bill of £9 for the groceries."
9.NounA written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, listing the price or charge paid; a receipt.
10.NounA paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
11.NounA writing that binds 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.
12.NounA set of items presented together.
13.NounA list of pupils to be disciplined for breaking school rules.
14.VerbTo advertise by a bill or public notice.
15.VerbTo charge; to send a bill to.
16.NounThe beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
17.NounA beaklike projection, especially a promontory.
"There is a lighthouse on Portland Bill."
18.NounOf a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
19.Verbto peck
20.Verbto stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
21.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.
22.NounA cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
23.NounSomebody armed with a bill; a billman.
24.NounA pickaxe or mattock.
25.NounThe extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
26.VerbTo dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
27.NounThe bell, or boom, of the bittern.
28.VerbTo roll up a marijuana cigarette.
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