Sekirov Dictionary

bill

/ˈbɪl/

noun22

  1. a written list of what someone has bought or had done, with the amount they must pay
  2. (India) A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, listing the price or charge paid; a receipt.
  3. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
  4. (US, Canada) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
  5. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
  6. A set of items presented together.
  7. The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
  8. A beaklike projection, especially a promontory.
  9. Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
  10. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
  11. (US, slang) One hundred dollars.
  12. (UK, slang) One hundred pounds sterling.
  13. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
  14. A 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.
  15. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
  16. (UK) A list of pupils to be disciplined for breaking school rules.
  17. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
  18. 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.
  19. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
  20. A pickaxe or mattock.
  21. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
  22. (no longer used) 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.

verb6

  1. To charge; to send a bill to.
  2. To advertise by a bill or public notice.
  3. to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
  4. (UK, slang) To roll up a marijuana cigarette.
  5. To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
  6. (no longer used) to peck
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