Bill

·noun A pickax, or mattock.

II. Bill ·noun One who wields a bill; a billman.

III. Bill ·noun The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

IV. Bill ·vt To advertise by a bill or public notice.

V. Bill ·vi To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.

VI. Bill ·vt To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.

VII. Bill ·noun A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

VIII. Bill ·vi To Strike; to Peck.

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

X. Bill ·noun The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.

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

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

XIII. Bill ·noun 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.

XIV. Bill ·noun 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.

XV. Bill ·noun 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.

XVI. Bill ·noun 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.

XVII. Bill ·noun 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.

XVIII. Bill ·noun 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.