BPage 141
- English Word Biliteralism Definition The property or state of being biliteral.
- English Word Biliverdin Definition A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.
- English Word Bilk Definition To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.
- English Word Bilk Definition A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
- English Word Bilk Definition A cheat; a trick; a hoax.
- English Word Bilk Definition Nonsense; vain words.
- English Word Bilk Definition A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.
- English Word Bilked Definition of Bilk
- English Word Bilking Definition of Bilk
- English Word Bill Definition A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
- English Word Bill Definition To strike; to peck.
- English Word Bill Definition To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.
- English Word Bill Definition The bell, or boom, of the bittern
- English Word Bill Definition 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.
- English Word Bill Definition 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.
- English Word Bill Definition One who wields a bill; a billman.
- English Word Bill Definition A pickax, or mattock.
- English Word Bill Definition The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
- English Word Bill Definition To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
- English Word Bill Definition 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.
- English Word Bill Definition 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.
- English Word Bill Definition A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
- English Word Bill Definition 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.
- English Word Bill Definition 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.
- English Word Bill Definition Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.
- English Word Bill Definition To advertise by a bill or public notice.
- English Word Bill Definition To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.
- English Word Bill book Definition 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.
- English Word Bill broker Definition One who negotiates the discount of bills.
- English Word Bill holder Definition A person who holds a bill or acceptance.