Acockbill :: Acockbill (adv.) Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor..

Acockbill :: Acockbill (adv.) Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.

Antibillous :: Antibillous (a.) Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.

Babillard :: Babillard (n.) The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler.

Bank Bill :: Bank bill () In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note..

Bank Bill :: Bank bill () In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency..

Bill :: Bill (n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal..

Bill :: Bill (v. i.) To strike; to peck.

Bill :: Bill (v. i.) To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness..

Bill :: Bill (n.) The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

Bill :: 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..

Bill :: 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..

Bill :: Bill (n.) One who wields a bill; a billman.

Bill :: Bill (n.) A pickax, or mattock..

Bill :: Bill (n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.

Bill :: Bill (v. t.) To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill..

Bill :: 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..

Bill :: Bill (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..

Bill :: Bill (n.) A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law..

Bill :: Bill (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..

Bill :: Bill (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..

Bill :: 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..

Bill :: Bill (v. t.) To advertise by a bill or public notice.

Bill :: Bill (v. t.) To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods..

Bill Book :: Bill book () A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives..

Bill Broker :: Bill broker () One who negotiates the discount of bills.

Bill Holder :: Bill holder () A person who holds a bill or acceptance.

Bill Holder :: Bill holder () A device by means of which bills, etc., are held..

Billage :: Billage (n. / v. t. & i.) Same as Bilge.

Billard :: Billard (n.) An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish..

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