Bill vs. Pill

Billnoun

Any 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.

Billnoun

A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.

Billnoun

Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.

Billnoun

A pickaxe, or mattock.

Billnoun

(nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).

Billnoun

The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.

Billnoun

A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.

Billnoun

Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.

Billnoun

A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)

Billnoun

A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)

Billnoun

A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

Billnoun

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.

Billnoun

(US) A piece of paper money; a banknote.

Billnoun

A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.

Billnoun

A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods

Billnoun

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. A bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.

Billnoun

A set of items presented together.

Billverb

(transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.

Billverb

(obsolete) To peck.

Billverb

To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness.

Billverb

(transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.

Billverb

(transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.

Billnoun

A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

Billnoun

The bell, or boom, of the bittern

Billnoun

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.

Billnoun

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.

Billnoun

One who wields a bill; a billman.

Billnoun

A pickax, or mattock.

Billnoun

The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.

Billnoun

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.

Billnoun

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.

Billnoun

A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

Billnoun

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.

Billnoun

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.

Billnoun

Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.

Billverb

To strike; to peck.

Billverb

To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.

Billverb

To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.

Billverb

To advertise by a bill or public notice.

Billverb

To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.

Billnoun

a statute in draft before it becomes law;

Billnoun

an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered;

Billnoun

a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank);

Billnoun

the entertainment offered at a public presentation

Billnoun

a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)

Billnoun

an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution;

Billnoun

horny projecting mouth of a bird

Billnoun

a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement;

Billnoun

a long-handled saw with a curved blade;

Billnoun

a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes;

Billverb

demand payment;

Billverb

advertise especially by posters or placards;

Billverb

publicize or announce by placards

Pillnoun

A small, usually cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.

Pillnoun

Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.

Pillnoun

(slang) A comical or entertaining person.

Pillnoun

(slang) A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.

Pillnoun

(informal) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile by rubbing.

Pillnoun

A baseball.

Pillnoun

A bullet (projectile).

Pillnoun

(GUI) A rounded rectangle indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.

Pillnoun

(obsolete) The peel or skin.

Pillnoun

An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.

Pillverb

Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.

Pillverb

To form into the shape of a pill.

Pillverb

To medicate with pills.

Pillverb

(obsolete) To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.

Pillverb

To peel; to make by removing the skin.

Pillverb

To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

Pillverb

(obsolete) To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.

Pillnoun

The peel or skin.

Pillnoun

A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.

Pillnoun

Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.

Pillverb

To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

Pillverb

To deprive of hair; to make bald.

Pillverb

To peel; to make by removing the skin.

Pillverb

To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder.

Pillnoun

something that resembles a pill in shape or size

Pillnoun

a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet

Pillnoun

a unpleasant or tiresome person

Pillnoun

something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured;

Pillnoun

a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception