Found 7 hits - Term: pill, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
1913 webster
2. to peel; to make by removing the skin.
1913 webster
jacob pilled white streaks . . . in the rods.
--gen. xxx.
37.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
1913 webster
pillers and robbers were come in to the field to pill
and to rob. --sir t.
malroy.
1913 webster
see also:
pilled pilling peel
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
1913 webster
see also:
peel pillion
- [4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pill \pill\, v. i.
to be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
1913 webster
- [5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
1913 webster
2. figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must
be accepted or endured. --udall.
1913 webster
pill beetle zool., any small beetle of the genus
byrrhus, having a rounded body, with the head concealed
beneath the thorax.
pill bug zool., any terrestrial isopod of the genus
armadillo, having the habit of rolling itself into a
ball when disturbed. called also pill wood louse.
1913 webster
see also:
piles pill beetle byrrhus pill bug armadillo pill wood louse
- [6] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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, tab
3: a unpleasant or tiresome person
4: something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or
endured; "his competitor's success was a bitter pill to
take"
5: a contraceptive in the form of 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, anovulant
see also:
lozenge tablet tab birth control pill contraceptive pill oral contraceptive pill
oral contraceptive anovulatory drug anovulant
- [7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
70 moby thesaurus words for "pill":
iud, sob, bag, bastard, birth control device, bolus, bore, bugger,
butt, buttonholer, capsule, condom, contraceptive,
contraceptive foam, cough drop, crank, crashing bore, creep, cure,
diaphragm, drag, drip, drug, dryasdust, dusty, fag, fart,
flat tire, frightful bore, headache, heel, hood, hooligan, humdrum,
intrauterine device, jerk, louse, lozenge, meanie, medicament,
medication, medicine, mother, nuisance, oral contraceptive,
pastille, pellet, pessary, pest, pharmaceutical, prophylactic,
proser, rat, remedy, rubber, shit, shithead, shitheel, skin, smoke,
spermicidal jelly, spermicide, stinkard, stinker, tablet, the pill,
troche, turd, twaddler, wet blanket
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