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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