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