Billing :: Billing (a. & n.) Caressing; kissing.

Billingsgate :: Billingsgate (n.) A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language..

Billingsgate :: Billingsgate (n.) Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry..

Billion :: Billion (n.) According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration..

Billman :: Billman (n.) One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax..

Billmen :: Billmen (pl. ) of Billma.

Billon :: Billon (n.) An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage..

Billot :: Billot (n.) Bullion in the bar or mass.

Billow :: Billow (n.) A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind..

Billow :: Billow (n.) A great wave or flood of anything.

Billow :: Billow (v. i.) To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.

Billowed :: Billowed (imp. & p. p.) of Billo.

Billowing :: Billowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Billo.

Billowy :: Billowy (a.) Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.

Billposter :: Billposter (n.) Alt. of Billsticke.

Billsticker :: Billsticker (n.) One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.

Billy :: Billy (n.) A club; esp., a policeman's club..

Billy :: Billy (n.) A slubbing or roving machine.

Billy Goat :: Billy goat () A male goat.

Billyboy :: Billyboy (n.) A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel.

Bluebill :: Bluebill (n.) A duck of the genus Fuligula. Two American species (F. marila and F. affinis) are common. See Scaup duck.

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.

Boatbill :: Boatbill (n.) A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus..

Broadbill :: Broadbill (n.) A wild duck (Aythya, / Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; -- called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck..

Broadbill :: Broadbill (n.) The shoveler. See Shoveler.

Brown Bill :: Brown bill () A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill.

Cockbill :: Cockbill (v. t.) To tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning..

Crane''s-bill :: Crane's-bill (n.) The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane..

Crane''s-bill :: Crane's-bill (n.) A pair of long-beaked forceps.

Crookbill :: Crookbill (n.) A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right..

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