Details of word BILL

Definition of bill

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.
- An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials.

Word "bill" contains 4 letters : B I L L

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