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pill |
6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pill \Pill\, n. [Cf. {Peel} skin, or {Pillion}.] The peel or skin. [Obs.] ``Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts.'' --Holland. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pill \Pill\, v. i. To be peeled; to peel off in flakes. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pill \Pill\, v. t. [Cf. L. pilare to deprive of hair, and E. pill, n. (above).] 1. To deprive of hair; to make bald. [Obs.] 2. To peel; to make by removing the skin. [Jacob] pilled white streaks . . . in the rods. --Gen. xxx. 37. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pill \Pill\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Pilled}; p. pr & vb n. {Pilling}.] [F. piller, L. pilare; cf It pigliare to take Cf {Peel} to plunder.] To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See {Peel}, to plunder. [Obs.] --Spenser. Pillers and robbers were come in to the field to pill and to rob. --Sir T. Malroy. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pill \Pill\, n. [F. pilute, L. pilula a pill, little ball, dim. of L. pila a ball. Cf {Piles}.] 1. A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole. 2. Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pill n 1: something that resembles a pill in shape or size 2: a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet [syn: {lozenge}, {tablet}] 3: a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception [syn: {birth control pill}, {contraceptive pill}, {oral contraceptive pill}, {oral contraceptive}, {anovulatory drug}]
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