Definition of bill

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Bill (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..

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Broker :: Broker (v. t.) A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc..
Table :: Table (v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely..
Boatbill :: Boatbill (n.) A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.
Change :: Change (v. t.) Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due..
Sworded :: Swordbill (n.) A humming bird (Docimastes ensiferus) having a very long, slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird..
Waybill :: Waybill (n.) A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill of lading..
Note :: Note (n.) A short informal letter; a billet.
Game :: Game (n.) To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble..
Swell :: Swell (n.) A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor..
Pocket :: Pocket (n.) One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven..
Tenuirostres :: Tenuirostres (n. pl.) An artificial group of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds..
Billfish :: Billfish (n.) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).
Buffet :: Buffet (v. t.) To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows..
Billage :: Billage (n. / v. t. & i.) Same as Bilge.
Culmen :: Culmen (n.) The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.
Tinker :: Tinker (n.) The razor-billed auk.
Ignoramus :: Ignoramus (n.) We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The phrase now used is, No bill, No true bill, or Not found, though in some jurisdictions Ignored is still used..
Bank :: Bank (n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity..
Stamp :: Stamp (v. t.) An offical mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is paid; as, the stamp on a bill of exchange..
Sicklebill :: Sicklebill (n.) Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer..
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