| • | A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal. |
| • | To strike; to peck. |
| • | To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. |
| • | The bell, or boom, of the bittern |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | One who wields a bill; a billman. |
| • | A pickax, or mattock. |
| • | The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke. |
| • | To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc. |
| • | To advertise by a bill or public notice. |
| • | To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods. |
