BILL

noun a pickax, or mattock.

2. bill ·noun one who wields a bill; a billman.

3. bill ·noun the bell, or boom, of the bittern.

4. bill ·vt to advertise by a bill or public notice.

5. bill ·vi to join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.

6. bill ·vt to charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.

7. bill ·noun a beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

8. bill ·vi to strike; to peck.

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

10. bill ·noun the extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.

11. bill ·noun a form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.