Bank bill () In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency |
Bank bill () 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. |
Bill (n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal. |
Bill (v. i.) To strike |
Bill (v. i.) To join bills, as doves |
Bill (n.) The bell, or boom, of the bittern |
Bill (n.) A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle |
Bill (n.) 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. |
Bill (n.) One who wields a bill |
Bill (n.) A pickax, or mattock. |
Bill (n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor |
Bill (v. t.) To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill. |
Bill (n.) 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. |
Bill (n.) 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. |
Bill (n.) A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment |
Bill (n.) A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods |
Bill (n.) An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge |
Bill (n.) Any paper, containing a statement of particulars |
Bill (v. t.) To advertise by a bill or public notice. |
Bill (v. t.) To charge or enter in a bill |
Bill book () 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. |
Bill broker () One who negotiates the discount of bills. |
Bill holder () A person who holds a bill or acceptance. |
Bill holder () A device by means of which bills, etc., are held. |
Brown bill () A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. |
Crane's-bill (n.) The geranium |
Crane's-bill (n.) A pair of long-beaked forceps. |
Duck's-bill (a.) Having the form of a duck's bill. |
Hedging bill () A hedge bill. See under Hedge. |
Ivory-bill (n.) 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. |
Lading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lade |
Lading (n.) The act of loading. |
Lading (n.) That which lades or constitutes a load or cargo |
Order (n.) Regular arrangement |
Order (n.) Of material things, like the books in a library. |
Order (n.) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. |
Order (n.) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like. |
Order (n.) Right arrangement |
Order (n.) The customary mode of procedure |
Order (n.) Conformity with law or decorum |
Order (n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure |
Order (n.) A command |
Order (n.) Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods |
Order (n.) A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position |
Order (n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation |
Order (n.) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop |
Order (n.) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture |
Order (n.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common |
Order (n.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression. |
Order (n.) Rank |
mail-order buying catalog buying | buying goods to be shipped through the mail |
twin bill doubleheader double feature | two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) |
Wild West Show Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show | a spectacular show organized in by William F. Cody that featured horseback riding and marksmanship on a large scale, toured the United States and Europe |
bill | the entertainment offered at a public presentation |
tall order large order | a formidable task or requirement, finishing in time was a tall order but we did it |
order arms | a position in the manual of arms, the rifle is held vertically on the right side with the butt on the ground, often used as a command |
close-order drill | (military) military drill of troops in standard marching (shoulder-to-shoulder) |
order ordering | the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement, there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list |
rank order | an arrangement according to rank |
holy order | the sacrament of ordination |
telephone order | receiving orders via telephone |
bill of review | a proceeding brought to obtain an explanation or an alteration or a reversal of a decree by the court that rendered it |
animal order | the order of animals |
protoctist order | the order of protoctists |
bacteria order | an order of bacteria |
Eubacteriales order Eubacteriales | one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria, Gram-positive spherical or rod-shaped forms, some are motile, in some classifications considered an order of Schizomycetes |
Pseudomonadales order Pseudomonadales | one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria, Gram-negative spiral or spherical or rod-shaped bacteria usually motile by polar flagella, some contain photosynthetic pigments |
Rickettsiales order Rickettsiales | pleomorphic Gram-negative microorganisms |
Mycoplasmatales order Mycoplasmatales | coextensive with the family Mycoplasmataceae |
Actinomycetales order Actinomycetales | filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria |
order Myxobacteria Myxobacterales order Myxobacterales Myxobacteriales order Myxobacteriales | an order of higher bacteria |
Spirochaetales order Spirochaetales | higher bacteria, slender spiral rodlike forms |
Heliozoa order Heliozoa | mostly freshwater protozoa |
Radiolaria order Radiolaria | marine protozoa |
Amoebida order Amoebida Amoebina order Amoebina | the animal order including amoebas |
Foraminifera order Foraminifera | foraminifers |
Testacea order Testacea | testacean rhizopods |
Heterotrichales order Heterotrichales | yellow-green algae with simple or branching filaments, comprising the single family Tribonemaceae |
Laminariales order Laminariales | in some classifications coextensive with family Laminariaceae: marine brown algae of cold or polar seas |
Fucales order Fucales | coextensive with the family Fucaceae |
Ulvales order Ulvales | an order of protoctist |
Volvocales order Volvocales | chiefly freshwater green algae, solitary or colonial |
Zygnematales order Zygnematales Zygnemales order Zygnemales | pond scums, desmids |
Chlorococcales order Chlorococcales | unicellular green algae that reproduce by spores |
Oedogoniales order oedogoniales | simple or branched filamentous freshwater green algae |
Charales order Charales | small order of macroscopic fresh and brackish water algae with a distinct axis: stoneworts |
Dinoflagellata order Dinoflagellata Cilioflagellata order Cilioflagellata | in some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista, in others included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta |
Hypermastigina order Hypermastigina | cellulose-producing flagellates |
Polymastigina order Polymastigina | small usually parasitic flagellates |
Coccidia order Coccidia | an order in the subclass Telosporidia |
Gregarinida order Gregarinida | an order in the subclass Telosporidia |
Haemosporidia order Haemosporidia | an order in the subclass Telosporidia |
Sarcosporidia order Sarcosporidia | imperfectly known parasites of the muscles of vertebrates |
Haplosporidia order Haplosporidia | an order in the subclass Acnidosporidia |
Actinomyxidia order Actinomyxidia | parasites of worms |
Mycrosporidia order Mycrosporidia | an order in the subclass Cnidosporidia |
Myxosporidia order Myxosporidia | an order in the subclass Cnidosporidia |
Ostariophysi order Ostariophysi | in some classifications considered a superorder comprising the Cypriniformes and the Siluriformes |
Cypriniformes order Cypriniformes | an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins, loaches, carp, suckers, sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi |
Berycomorphi order Berycomorphi | an order of spiny-finned fish in the superorder Acanthopterygii |