Bill

[bɪl]

[bɪl]

Definition

(noun.) the entertainment offered at a public presentation.

(noun.) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes; 'he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead'.

(noun.) a long-handled saw with a curved blade; 'he used a bill to prune branches off of the tree'.

(noun.) a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare).

(noun.) an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered; 'he paid his bill and left'; 'send me an account of what I owe'.

(noun.) a statute in draft before it becomes law; 'they held a public hearing on the bill'.

(noun.) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); 'he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes'.

(verb.) advertise especially by posters or placards; 'He was billed as the greatest tenor since Caruso'.

Edited by Dinah--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Editor: Randolph

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Beak, mandible, neb.[2]. Account, charges, reckoning, score.[3]. Statement of particulars.[4]. Draft of a law, projected law.

Edited by Brent

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Account, reckoning, score, charges, jaw, mandible, beak

Checked by Kenneth

Definition

n. a kind of concave battle-axe with a long wooden handle: a kind of hatchet with a long blade and wooden handle in the same line with it often with a hooked point used in cutting thorn hedges or in pruning.—ns. Bill′hook a bill or hatchet having a hooked or curved point; Bill′man a soldier armed with a bill.

n. an account of money: a draft of a proposed law: a written engagement to pay a sum of money at a fixed date: a placard or advertisement: any written statement of particulars: in the criminal law of England the formal name of a written accusation of serious crime preferred before a grand-jury.—n. Bill′-book a book used in commerce in which an entry is made of all bills accepted and received.—n.pl. Bill′-brok′ers persons who being skilled in the money-market the state of mercantile and personal credit and the rates of exchange engage either on their own account or that of their employers in the purchase and sale of foreign and inland bills of exchange and promissory notes: the business of Bill′-discount′ers or discount-brokers again consists in discounting or advancing the amount of bills of exchange and notes which have some time to run before they come due on the faith of the credit of the parties to the bill.—n. Bill′-cham′ber a department of the Court of Session in Scotland which deals with summary business—so called because formerly both summonses and diligence or execution were for the most part commenced by a writ called a bill; Bill′-stick′er one who sticks or posts up bills or placards.—Bill of adventure a writing by a merchant stating that goods shipped by him and in his name are the property of another whose adventure or chance the transaction is—the shipping merchant on the other hand undertaking to account to the adventurer for the produce; Bill of complaint the name given in the English Court of Chancery prior to the Judicature Act of 1873 to the formal statement of the facts and prayer for relief submitted by a plaintiff to the court; Bill of costs an account stating in detail the charges and disbursements of an attorney or solicitor in the conduct of his client's business; Bill of exceptions a statement of objections by way of appeal against the decision of a judge who is trying a case with a jury in the Court of Session; Bill of exchange a document purporting to be an instrument of pecuniary obligation for value received and which is employed for the purpose of settling a debt in a manner convenient to the parties concerned; Bill of fare in a hotel the list of dishes or articles of food; Bill of health an official certificate of the state of health on board ship before sailing; Bill of lading a paper signed by the master of a ship by which he makes himself responsible for the safe delivery of the goods specified therein; Bill of mortality an official account of the births and deaths occurring in a certain district within a given time; Bill of sale in English law a formal deed assigning personal property the usual mode of transferring ships and valuable as mercantile securities over stock-in-trade furniture &c.; Bill of sight an entry of imported goods of which the merchant does not know the quantity or the quality; Bill of store a license from the customs authorities to reimport British goods formerly exported; Bill of victualling a list of necessary stores shipped from the bonded warehouse or for drawback on board vessels proceeding on oversea voyages.

n. the beak of a bird or anything like it applied even to a sharp promontory as Portland Bill: the point of the fluke of an anchor—hence Bill′-board,n. used to protect the planking from being injured by the bill when the anchor is weighed.—v.i. to join bills as doves: to caress fondly.—adj. Billed."

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