Bill
Definition of Bill
n. | 1. | A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal. | v. i. | 1. | To strike; to peck. | | 2. | To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. | n. | 1. | The bell, or boom, of the bittern | | 1. | 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. | | 2. | 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. | | 3. | One who wields a bill; a billman. | | 4. | A pickax, or mattock. | | 5. | (Naut.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke. | v. t. | 1. | To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill. | n. | 1. | | | 1. | (Law) 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. | | 2. | 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. | | 3. | A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law. | | 4. | 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. | | 5. | 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. | | 6. | 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 of exchange | (Com.) a written order or request from one person or house to another, desiring the latter to pay to some person designated a certain sum of money therein generally is, and, to be negotiable, must be, made payable to order or to bearer. So also the order generally expresses a specified time of payment, and that it is drawn for value. The person who draws the bill is called the drawer, the person on whom it is drawn is, before acceptance, called the drawee, - after acceptance, the acceptor; the person to whom the money is directed to be paid is called the payee. The person making the order may himself be the payee. The bill itself is frequently called a draft. See Exchange. |
| v. t. | 1. | To advertise by a bill or public notice. | | 2. | To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods. |
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