bill | noun (n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal. |
| noun (n.) The bell, or boom, of the bittern |
| noun (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. |
| noun (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. |
| noun (n.) One who wields a bill; a billman. |
| noun (n.) A pickax, or mattock. |
| noun (n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke. |
| noun (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. |
| noun (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. |
| noun (n.) A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law. |
| noun (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. |
| noun (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. |
| noun (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. |
| verb (v. i.) To strike; to peck. |
| verb (v. i.) To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. |
| verb (v. t.) To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill. |
| verb (v. t.) To advertise by a bill or public notice. |
| verb (v. t.) To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods. |
| () An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials. |
chill | noun (n.) A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. |
| noun (n.) A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever. |
| noun (n.) A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly. |
| noun (n.) An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it. |
| noun (n.) The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel. |
| adjective (a.) Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw. |
| adjective (a.) Affected by cold. |
| adjective (a.) Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception. |
| adjective (a.) Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting. |
| verb (v. t.) To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold. |
| verb (v. t.) To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage. |
| verb (v. t.) To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron. |
| verb (v. i.) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others. |
distill | noun (n. & v) To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle. |
| noun (n. & v) To flow gently, or in a small stream. |
| noun (n. & v) To practice the art of distillation. |
| verb (v. t.) To let fall or send down in drops. |
| verb (v. t.) To obtain by distillation; to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine; to distill alcoholic spirits from grain; to distill essential oils from flowers, etc.; to distill fresh water from sea water. |
| verb (v. t.) To subject to distillation; as, to distill molasses in making rum; to distill barley, rye, corn, etc. |
| verb (v. t.) To dissolve or melt. |
drill | noun (n.) An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press. |
| noun (n.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill. |
| noun (n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar. |
| noun (n.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea. |
| noun (n.) A small trickling stream; a rill. |
| noun (n.) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. |
| noun (n.) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. |
| noun (n.) A row of seed sown in a furrow. |
| noun (n.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus). |
| noun (n.) Same as Drilling. |
| verb (v. t.) To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal. |
| verb (v. t.) To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline. |
| verb (v. i.) To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. |
| verb (v. t.) To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water. |
| verb (v. t.) To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. |
| verb (v. i.) To trickle. |
| verb (v. i.) To sow in drills. |
fill | noun (n.) One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. |
| noun (n.) That which fills; filling; specif., an embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled. |
| adjective (a.) To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of. |
| adjective (a.) To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun. |
| adjective (a.) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy. |
| adjective (a.) To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair. |
| adjective (a.) To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy. |
| adjective (a.) To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails. |
| adjective (a.) To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails. |
| adjective (a.) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel. |
| verb (v. i.) To become full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to have an abundant supply; to be satiated; as, corn fills well in a warm season; the sail fills with the wind. |
| verb (v. i.) To fill a cup or glass for drinking. |
| verb (v. t.) A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction. |
gill | noun (n.) An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia. |
| noun (n.) The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom. |
| noun (n.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle. |
| noun (n.) The flesh under or about the chin. |
| noun (n.) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments. |
| noun (n.) A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber. |
| noun (n.) A leech. |
| noun (n.) A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream. |
| noun (n.) A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint. |
| noun (n.) A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl. |
| noun (n.) The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names. |
| noun (n.) Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy. |
ill | noun (n.) Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity. |
| noun (n.) Whatever is contrary to good, in a moral sense; wickedness; depravity; iniquity; wrong; evil. |
| adjective (a.) Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable. |
| adjective (a.) Contrary to good, in a moral sense; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitious; naughtly; bad; improper. |
| adjective (a.) Sick; indisposed; unwell; diseased; disordered; as, ill of a fever. |
| adjective (a.) Not according with rule, fitness, or propriety; incorrect; rude; unpolished; inelegant. |
| adverb (adv.) In a ill manner; badly; weakly. |
kill | noun (n.) A kiln. |
| noun (n.) A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc. |
| noun (n.) The act of killing. |
| noun (n.) An animal killed in the hunt, as by a beast of prey. |
| verb (v. t.) To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay. |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind. |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid. |
mill | noun (n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. |
| noun (n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill. |
| noun (n.) A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill. |
| noun (n.) A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill. |
| noun (n.) A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc. |
| noun (n.) A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill. |
| noun (n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper. |
| noun (n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. |
| noun (n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot. |
| noun (n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling. |
| noun (n.) A pugilistic. |
| noun (n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute. |
| noun (n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter. |
| noun (n.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin. |
| noun (n.) To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. |
| noun (n.) To beat with the fists. |
| noun (n.) To roll into bars, as steel. |
| noun (n.) Short for Treadmill. |
| noun (n.) The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw. |
| verb (v. i.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures. |
| verb (v. i.) To undergo hulling, as maize. |
| verb (v. i.) To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain. |
| verb (v. i.) To swim suddenly in a new direction; -- said of whales. |
| verb (v. i.) To take part in a mill; to box. |
| verb (v. t.) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle. |
quill | noun (n.) One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather. |
| noun (n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill. |
| noun (n.) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine. |
| noun (n.) The pen of a squid. See Pen. |
| noun (n.) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments. |
| noun (n.) The tube of a musical instrument. |
| noun (n.) Something having the form of a quill |
| noun (n.) The fold or plain of a ruff. |
| noun (n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle. |
| noun (n.) A hollow spindle. |
| noun (n.) One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather. |
| noun (n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill. |
| noun (n.) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine. |
| noun (n.) The pen of a squid. See Pen. |
| noun (n.) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments. |
| noun (n.) The tube of a musical instrument. |
| noun (n.) Something having the form of a quill |
| noun (n.) The fold or plain of a ruff. |
| noun (n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle. |
| noun (n.) A hollow spindle. |
| noun (n.) A roll of dried bark; as, a quill of cinnamon or of cinchona. |
| verb (v. t.) To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle. |
| verb (v. t.) To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn. |
| verb (v. t.) To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle. |
| verb (v. t.) To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn. |
jewel | noun (n.) An ornament of dress usually made of a precious metal, and having enamel or precious stones as a part of its design. |
| noun (n.) A precious stone; a gem. |
| noun (n.) An object regarded with special affection; a precious thing. |
| noun (n.) A bearing for a pivot a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone, as a ruby. |
| verb (v. t.) To dress, adorn, deck, or supply with jewels, as a dress, a sword hilt, or a watch; to bespangle, as with jewels. |
journal | adjective (a.) Daily; diurnal. |
| adjective (a.) A diary; an account of daily transactions and events. |
| adjective (a.) A book of accounts, in which is entered a condensed and grouped statement of the daily transactions. |
| adjective (a.) A daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage, etc. |
| adjective (a.) The record of daily proceedings, kept by the clerk. |
| adjective (a.) A newspaper published daily; by extension, a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies, etc. |
| adjective (a.) That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey. |
| adjective (a.) That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box. |