bill : Idioms & Phrases

• (Com.), a writing setting forth that the goods shipped are at the owner's risk.

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• a certificate from the proper authrity that a ship is free from infection.

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• (Law), a bill of indictment which is returned by the grand jury so indorsed, signifying that the charges to be true.
• a bill of indictment sanctioned by a grand jury.

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• is an engagement to pay it according to the terms. This engagement is usually made by writing the word "accepted" across the face of the bill.

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• (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit.

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• noun a legislative act proposing to authorize the expenditure of public funds for a specified purpose
  

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• noun a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
  bank bill; banknote; bill; note; Federal Reserve note; government note; bank note; greenback.
  
  • he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes

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Bank" bill`

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1. In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note.
2. In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency.

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• noun a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
  bank bill; banknote; bill; note; Federal Reserve note; government note; bank note; greenback.
  
  • he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes

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• noun United States labor leader and militant socialist who was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (1869-1928)
  Haywood; William Dudley Haywood.
  

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• noun United States tennis player who dominated men's tennis in the 1920s (1893-1953)
  William Tatem Tilden Jr.; Tilden.
  

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Bill" book`

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1. (Com.) A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives.

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Bill" bro`ker

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1. One who negotiates the discount of bills.

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• noun 42nd President of the United States (1946-)
  President Clinton; Clinton; William Jefferson Clinton.
  

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• noun United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
  Gates; William Henry Gates.
  

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• noun United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock'n'roll music (1925-1981)
  Haley; William John Clifton Haley Jr..
  

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Bill" hold`er

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1. A person who holds a bill or acceptance.
2. A device by means of which bills, etc., are held.

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• noun United States cartoonist noted for his drawings of soldiers in battle (1921-2003)
  William Henry Mauldin; Mauldin.
  

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• . See under Adventure.

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• noun a legislative act finding a person guilty of treason or felony without a trial
  
  • bills of attainder are prohibited by the Constitution of the United States

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• a statement of the items which form the total amount of the costs of a party to a suit or action.

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• . (a) Within the constitution of the United States, a paper issued by a State, on the mere faith and credit of the State, and designed to circulate as money. No State shall "emit bills of credit." U. S. Const. Peters. Wharton. Bouvier (b) Among merchants, a letter sent by an agent or other person to a merchant, desiring him to give credit to the bearer for goods or money.

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• in the Jewish law, a writing given by the husband to the wife, by which the marriage relation was dissolved. Jer. iii. 8.

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• noun a list of goods received at a customhouse for export or import
  

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• a written account of goods entered at the customhouse, whether imported or intended for exportation.

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• . See under Exception.

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• noun a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another
  order of payment; draft.
  

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• (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 bil 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. Chitty.

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• noun a list of dishes available at a restaurant
  menu; carte du jour; carte; card.
  
  • the menu was in French

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• a written or printed enumeration of the dishes served at a public table, or of the dishes (with prices annexed) which may be ordered at a restaurant, etc.

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• noun communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable
  
  • they tried to sell me a bill of goods about a secondhand car
• noun a consignment of merchandise
  

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• noun a certificate saying that a departing ship's company is healthy (to be presented at the next port of arrival)
  

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• a certificate from the proper authorities as to the state of health of a ship's company at the time of her leaving port.

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• noun a formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense
  indictment.
  

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• a written accusation lawfully presented to a grand jury. If the jury consider the evidence sufficient to support the accusation, they indorse it "A true bill," or "Not found," or "Ignoramus", or "Ignored."

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• noun a receipt given by the carrier to the shipper acknowledging receipt of the goods being shipped and specifying the terms of delivery
  waybill.
  

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• a written account of goods shipped by any person, signed by the agent of the owner of the vessel, or by its master, acknowledging the receipt of the goods, and promising to deliver them safe at the place directed, dangers of the sea excepted. It is usual for the master to sign two, three, or four copies of the bill; one of which he keeps in possession, one is kept by the shipper, and one is sent to the consignee of the goods.

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• an official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a given time; also, a district required to be covered by such statement; as, a place within the bills of mortality of London.

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• a special act of a legislature which inflicts a punishment less than death upon persons supposed to be guilty of treason or felony, without any conviction in the ordinary course of judicial proceedings. Bouvier. Wharton.

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• an account given by the seller to the buyer of the several articles purchased, with the price of each.

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• noun the particular events to be dealt with in a criminal trial; advises the defendant and the court of the facts the defendant will be required to meet
  

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• (Law), a detailed statement of the items of a plaintiff's demand in an action, or of the defendant's set-off.

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• noun a proceeding brought to obtain an explanation or an alteration or a reversal of a decree by the court that rendered it
  

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• noun a statement of fundamental rights and privileges (especially the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution)
  

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• a summary of rights and privileges claimed by a people. Such was the declaration presented by the Lords and Commons of England to the Prince and Princess of Orange in 1688, and enacted in Parliament after they became king and queen. In America, a bill or declaration of rights is prefixed to most of the constitutions of the several States.

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• noun a deed transferring personal property
  

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• a formal instrument for the conveyance or transfer of goods and chattels.

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• a form of entry at the customhouse, by which goods, respecting which the importer is not possessed of full information, may be provisionally landed for examination.

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• a license granted at the customhouse to merchants, to carry such stores and provisions as are necessary for a voyage, custom free. Wharton.

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• noun someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards
  poster; bill poster.
  

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• noun United States basketball center (born in 1934)
  Russell; William Felton Russell.
  

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• noun someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards
  poster; bill poster.
  

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• noun an order that is received without payment; requires billing at a later date
  credit order.
  

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• (pl.), the outstanding unpaid notes or acceptances made and issued by an individual or firm.

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• (pl.), the unpaid promissory notes or acceptances held by an individual or firm. McElrath.

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• noun North American cuckoo; builds a nest and rears its own young
  Coccyzus erythropthalmus.
  

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• noun tropical American heron related to night herons
  broadbill; boatbill; Cochlearius cochlearius.
  

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• noun a statute that would require merchants to reclaim used bottles
  

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Brown" bill`

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1. A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill.

   Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak.

   ✍ The black, or as it is sometimes called, the brown bill, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part hooked like a woodman's bill, from the back of which projected a spike, and another from the head. Grose.

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• noun United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917)
  William F. Cody; William Frederick Cody; Buffalo Bill; Cody.
  

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• noun United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917)
  William F. Cody; William Frederick Cody; Buffalo Bill; Cody.
  

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• noun a spectacular show organized in 1883 by William F. Cody that featured horseback riding and marksmanship on a large scale; toured the United States and Europe
  Wild West Show.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a very large Australian cucko (Scythrops Novæhollandiæ.

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• noun an assurance that someone is healthy or something is in good condition
  
  • the doctor gave him a clean bill of health

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• noun any of numerous geraniums of the genus Geranium
  cranesbill.
  

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Crane's"-bill` noun

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1. (Bot.) The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane. Dr. Prior.
2. (Surg.) A pair of long-beaked forceps.

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• . See in the Vocabulary.

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• noun statement of charges for medical services
  doctor's bill.
  

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• noun a piece of paper money worth one dollar
  dollar bill; clam; dollar; buck.
  

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Duck's"-bill` adjective

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1. Having the form of a duck's bill.

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• (Zoöl.), a limpet of the genus Parmaphorus; so named from its shape.

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• adjective satellite having a beak resembling that of a duck
  duckbill.
  
  • a duck-billed dinosaur

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Duck"-billed` adjective

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1. Having a bill like that of a duck. duckbilled platypus, see Duck Mole, above .

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• noun any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic
  hadrosaurus; hadrosaur.
  

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• noun small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae
  duckbill; Ornithorhynchus anatinus; platypus; duckbilled platypus.
  

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• noun a bill for money owed for electricity used
  

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• (Legislation), one which has been plainly engrossed on parchment, with all its amendments, preparatory to final action on its passage.

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• (Eng.), bills of money, or promissory bills, issued from the exchequer by authority of Parliament; a species of paper currency emitted under the authority of the government, and bearing interest.

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• noun a statute that would regulate farm production and prices
  

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• noun a United States bill worth 50 dollars
  fifty.
  

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• verb be what is needed or be good enough for what is required
  fill the bill.
  
  • Does this restaurant fit the bill for the celebration?

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• verb be what is needed or be good enough for what is required
  fill the bill.
  
  • Does this restaurant fit the bill for the celebration?

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• noun a United States bill worth 5 dollars
  five-spot; fiver.
  

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• noun a bill of exchange that is drawn in one country and made payable in another
  foreign draft.
  

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• a bill drawn in one country, and payable in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as in several other points of view, the different States of the United States are foreign to each other. See Exchange, n., 4. Kent. Story.

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• a certificate, duly authenticated, that a ship has come from a place where a contagious disorder prevails, or that some of the crew are infected.

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• a small pruning hook. See 4th Bill.

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• (Horology), the pawl for the rack, in the striking mechanism of a clock.

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• a long-handled billhook.

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Hedg"ing bill`

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1. A hedge bill. See under Hedge.

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• noun any of various plants of the genus Erodium
  storksbill.
  

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• (Bot.), a plant of the genus Erodium; so called from the fancied resemblance of the fruit to the head and beak of the heron.

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• (Zoöl.), the strongly curved beak of a bird.

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Hook"-billed` adjective

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1. (Zoöl.) Having a strongly curved bill.

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• a curlew.

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• noun statement of charges for staying in a hotel
  

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• noun a United States bill worth 100 dollars
  c-note.
  

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• noun a bill of exchange that is both drawn and made payable in the same country
  

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I"vo*ry-bill` noun

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1. (Zoöl.) A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States.

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• noun large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct
  Campephilus principalis; ivorybill.
  

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• noun United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885)
  Henry Wheeler Shaw; Shaw.
  

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• noun grandson of Queen Victoria and Kaiser of Germany from 1888 to 1918; he was vilified as causing World War I (1859-1941)
  Kaiser Wilhelm; Wilhelm II.
  

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• noun American wren that inhabits tall reed beds
  Cistothorus palustris.
  

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• noun statement of charges for medical services
  doctor's bill.
  

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• (Legislation), a bill for raising revenue.

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• a legislative bill which provides for a number of miscellaneous enactments or appropriations. Parliamentary Cant, U.S.

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• noun a piece of paper money worth one dollar
  dollar bill; clam; dollar; buck.
  

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• noun evergreen shrub with scarlet to white clawlike or beaklike flowers; New Zealand
  parrot's beak; Clianthus puniceus.
  

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Par"rot's-bill` noun

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1. (Bot.) The glory pea. See under Glory.

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• noun statement of charges for telephone service
  phone bill.
  

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• noun American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill
  Podilymbus podiceps.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the dabchick.

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• a bill of letters mailed by a postmaster.

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• the offering of a bill to the drawee for acceptance, or to the acceptor for payment. See Bill of exchange, under Bill.

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• (Naut.), a list specifying the different stations to be taken by the officers and crew in time of action, and the names of the men assigned to each.

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• (Law), a war contract, valid by the law of nations, for the ransom of property captured at sea and its safe conduct into port.

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• noun black-and-white northern Atlantic auk having a compressed sharp-edged bill
  razorbill; Alca torda.
  

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• (Legislation), its normal recital, by the proper officer, before the House which is to consider it.

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• the merganser.

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• adjective satellite having a short beak
  short-beaked.
  

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• noun small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows
  Cistothorus platensis; sedge wren.
  

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• noun a poster advertising a show or play
  show card; theatrical poster.
  

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• a broad sheet containing an advertisement in large letters.

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• noun a draft payable on presentation
  sight draft.
  

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• (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. Burril.

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• a bill or draft made out in blank as to the amount or payee, but signed by the acceptor. Eng.

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• a small nail; a castiron shoe nail; a sparable.

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Spec"kled-bill" noun

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1. (Zoöl.) The American white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons).

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Spoon"-billed` adjective

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1. (Zoöl.) Having the bill expanded and spatulate at the end.

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• . (Naut.) Same as Quarter bill, under Quarter.

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• (Bot.), any plant of the genus Pelargonium; so called in allusion to the beaklike prolongation of the axis of the receptacle of its flower. See Pelargonium.

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Stork"-billed` adjective

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1. Having a bill like that of the stork.

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• adjective satellite having a strong beak
  

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• adjective satellite having a straight beak
  

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• (Equity), a bill filed in aid of an original bill to supply some deffect in the latter, or to set forth new facts which can not be done by amendment. Burrill. Daniel.

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• noun a short-term obligation that is not interest-bearing (it is purchased at a discount); can be traded on a discount basis for 91 days
  T-bill.
  

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• noun money owed for taxes
  

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• noun statement of charges for telephone service
  phone bill.
  

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• noun a United States bill worth 10 dollars
  tenner.
  

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• adjective satellite having a thick beak
  

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• noun a variety of murre
  Uria lomvia.
  

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• noun a draft payable at a specified future date
  time draft.
  

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• . Same as Time-table. Eng.

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• (Law), to agree (on the part of the drawee) to pay it when due.

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• to make some change in the details or provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage, professedly for its improvement.

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• to interchange caresses; said of doves; also of demonstrative lovers.

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• (Legislation), to refer or intrust it to a committee or others, to be considered and reported.

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• to pay it. Colloq.

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• to record on the back of it a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.

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• (Law), to make a solemn written declaration, in due form, on behalf of the holder, against all parties liable for any loss or damage to be sustained by the nonacceptance or the nonpayment of the bill or note, as the case may be. This should be made by a notary public, whose seal it is the usual practice to affix.

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• etc., to increase fraudulently its nominal value by changing the writing, figures, or printing in which the sum payable is specified. or money order

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• noun the advertisement of a star's name at the top of a theatrical poster
  

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• noun a statute that would regulate foreign trade
  

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• noun a short-term obligation that is not interest-bearing (it is purchased at a discount); can be traded on a discount basis for 91 days
  T-bill.
  

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• noun an indictment endorsed by a grand jury
  

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• noun a United States bill worth 20 dollars
  twenty.
  

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• noun two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day)
  doubleheader; double feature.
  

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• noun a United States bill worth 2 dollars
  

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• (Naut.), a list of the officers and crew of a ship as divided into watches, with their stations. Totten.

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• noun frontier marshal whose adventures have become legendary (1837-1876)
  James Butler Hickock; Hickock.
  

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