Pill
[pɪl]
Definition
(noun.) a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet.
(noun.) something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size.
(noun.) a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception.
(noun.) something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured; 'his competitor's success was a bitter pill to take'.
(noun.) a unpleasant or tiresome person.
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Definition
(n.) The peel or skin.
(v. i.) To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
(v. t.) To deprive of hair; to make bald.
(v. t.) To peel; to make by removing the skin.
(v. t. & i.) To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder.
(n.) A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
(n.) Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
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Definition
v.t. and v.i. to strip peel: to deprive of hair.—n. (Spens.) skin.
n. a little ball of medicine: anything nauseous which must be accepted: (slang) a doctor: a disagreeable person.—v.t. (slang) to blackball.—n. Pill′-box a box for holding pills: a kind of one-horse carriage.
Editor: Lyle
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you take pills, denotes that you will have responsibilities to look after, but they will bring you no little comfort and enjoyment. To give them to others, signifies that you will be criticised for your disagreeableness.
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Examples
- Unprepared as he was for the large pill he had to swallow, he got it down. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Paragon then put them to bed, gave them a Scotchman, in the shape of a pill, and all was still as the grave! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Which disables me from helping you by pill or potion. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She drove into town for the purpose in a one-horse carriage irreverently called at that period of English history, a pill-box. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He turned it about in his mouth much longer than usual, pondering over it a good deal, and after all gulped it down like a pill. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Take three, four, and even five pills a day. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I merely administered one of Inglish's excellent aperient Scott's pills to the dear infant, Paragon replied, calmly. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- They ain't Pills, or Hair-Washes, or Invigorating Nervous Essences, to be puffed in that way! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Miss Sarah, said Joe, she have twenty-five pound perannium fur to buy pills, on account of being bilious. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And I saw pistols in it,--and jam,--and pills. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He may support her by selling pink pills; he is nevertheless moral if he is monogamous. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And, interrupted Fitzgerald, confine his attention to his draughts and pills. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He rallied a little under the Podgers' pills which I administered to him; but alas! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Take two or three pills at bedtime, for several nights successively. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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