bill

A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)

A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)

A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

• Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the Prime Minister, I beg to introduce a bill entitled[…]

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.obsolete

• ... the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality ...

A piece of paper money; a banknote.CanadaUS

• He gave the change for a three dollar bill. Upon examination, the bill proved to be counterfeit.
• […]So I wropped 'em up in a five dollar bill and tied 'em up and sent 'em, and they ain't back yet.”

A piece of paper money; a banknote.; One hundred dollars.CanadaUSslang

• There was no excuse, simply no excuse for not making four or five bills a week. A little initiative, that's all.
• All we got from her was Stranahan's location, and barely that. A house in the bay, she said. A house with a windmill. Easiest five bills that woman ever made.

One hundred pounds sterling.UKslang

• In the conversation Henshall says he "struggling to find people to go up the roads" explaining how it would be "no good for black people" and how they need a "young white boy to go up there". Stock agrees, saying how he knows "this kid" who

A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge owing; an invoice.

• He received a bill of £9 for the groceries.

A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, listing the price or charge paid; a receipt.Indiaslang

A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods

• In the meantime I will draw a bill of properties, such as our play wants.

To advertise by a bill or public notice.transitive

• [...] it will be recalled that in 1960 they were billed as the long-distance express multiple-units of the future, [...].

To charge; to send a bill to.transitive

• The physician explains that this is an option for her and that she can sign the facility's ABN so that if Medicare denies the claim, the facility can bill her for the scan.

The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.

• The woosel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill, The throstle with his note so true, The wren with little quill[…]
• "Army planes." Quack-quack-quack-quack-quack. Who was the one in front with the yellow bill? Jimmy Doolittle?

A beaklike projection, especially a promontory.

• There is a lighthouse on Portland Bill.

Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.

to peckobsolete

to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness

• As the ox hath his bow, sir, the horse his curb and the falcon her bells, so man hath his desires; and as pigeons bill, so wedlock would be nibbling.

Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attache

• At Floddon hyllys, / Our bowys, our byllys / Slew all the floure / Of theyr honoure.
• In the British Museum there is an entry of a warrant, granted to Nicholas Spicer, authorising him to impress smiths for making two thousand Welch bills or glaives.

A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.

Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.

A pickaxe or mattock.

The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).

To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.transitive

The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

• The bittern's hollow bill was heard.

To roll up a marijuana cigarette.UKambitransitiveslang

• And we don't really need Netflix, I'mma give you something to watch / After we done, bill a spliff and cotch / Pour me a glass of the Henny on the rocks