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. |
Buffel duck
() A small duck (Charitonetta albeola) |
Crane's-bill
(n.) The geranium |
Crane's-bill
(n.) A pair of long-beaked forceps. |
Decoy-duck
(n.) A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy |
Duck
(n.) A pet |
Duck
(n.) A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing. |
Duck
(n.) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates. |
Duck
(v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw. |
Duck
(v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it |
Duck
(v. t.) To bow |
Duck
(v. i.) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear |
Duck
(v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly |
Duck
(v. t.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae. |
Duck
(v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. |
Duck-billed
(a.) Having a bill like that of a duck. |
Duck-legged
(a.) Having short legs, like a waddling duck |
Duck's-meat
(n.) Duckweed. |
Duck's-bill
(a.) Having the form of a duck's bill. |
Duck's-foot
(n.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). |
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. |
Muscovy duck
() A duck (Cairina moschata), larger than the common duck, often raised in poultry yards. Called also musk duck. It is native of tropical America, from Mexico to Southern Brazil. |
Parrot's-bill
(n.) The glory pea. See under Glory. |
Raven's-duck
(n.) A fine quality of sailcloth. |
Sea duck
() Any one of numerous species of ducks which frequent the seacoasts and feed mainly on fishes and mollusks. The scoters, eiders, old squaw, and ruddy duck are examples. They may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe. |
| ducking duck hunting | hunting ducks |
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 |
cinch breeze
picnic
snap duck soup
child's play
pushover
walkover
piece of cake | any undertaking that is easy to do, marketing this product will be no picnic |
| 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 |
hadrosaur
hadrosaurus
duck-billed dinosaur | any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet, may have been partly aquatic |
beak
bill
neb nib
pecker | horny projecting mouth of a bird |
| duck | small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs |
| diving duck | any of various ducks of especially bays and estuaries that dive for their food |
dabbling duck
dabbler | any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling |
black duck
Anas rubripes | a dusky duck of northeastern United States and Canada |
pintail pin-tailed duck
Anas acuta | long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers |
ruddy duck
Oxyura jamaicensis | reddish-brown stiff-tailed duck of North America and northern South America |
canvasback
canvasback duck
Aythya valisineria | North American wild duck valued for sport and food |
scaup
scaup duck
bluebill
broadbill | diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill |
lesser scaup
lesser scaup duck
lake duck
Aythya affinis | common scaup of North America, males have purplish heads |
| wild duck | an undomesticated duck (especially a mallard) |
wood duck
summer duck
wood widgeon
Aix sponsa | showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees |
mandarin duck
Aix galericulata | showy crested Asiatic duck, often domesticated |
muscovy duck
musk duck
Cairina moschata | large crested wild duck of Central America and South America, widely domesticated |
| sea duck | any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider, scoter, merganser |
eider
eider duck | duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females |
merganser
fish duck
sawbill
sheldrake | large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges |
platypus
duckbill duckbilled platypus
duck-billed platypus
Ornithorhynchus anatinus | small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet, only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae |
| duck down | down of the duck |
| Donald Duck | a fictional duck created in animated film strips by Walt Disney |
bill
peak
eyeshade
visor
vizor | a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes, he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead |
| bill billhook | a long-handled saw with a curved blade, he used a bill to prune branches off of the tree |
bird shot
buckshot
duck shot | small lead shot for shotgun shells |
| duck | a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave, used for clothing and tents |
| bill of health | a certificate saying that a departing ship's company is healthy (to be presented at the next port of arrival) |
| bill | a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare) |
| bill of entry | a list of goods received at a customhouse for export or import |
| bill of goods | a consignment of merchandise |
menu
bill of fare
card carte du jour
carte | a list of dishes available at a restaurant, the menu was in French |
| bill account invoice | an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered, he paid his bill and left, send me an account of what I owe |
| electric bill | a bill for money owed for electricity used |
| hotel bill | statement of charges for staying in a hotel |
medical bill
doctor's bill | statement of charges for medical services |
phone bill
telephone bill | statement of charges for telephone service |
| tax bill | money owed for taxes |
bill of lading
waybill | a receipt given by the carrier to the shipper acknowledging receipt of the goods being shipped and specifying the terms of delivery |
credit order
bill-me order | an order that is received without payment, requires billing at a later date |
| bill measure | a statute in draft before it becomes law, they held a public hearing on the bill |
| appropriation bill | a legislative act proposing to authorize the expenditure of public funds for a specified purpose |
| bill of attainder | a legislative act finding a person guilty of treason or felony without a trial, bills of attainder are prohibited by the Constitution of the United States |
| bottle bill | a statute that would require merchants to reclaim used bottles |
| farm bill | a statute that would regulate farm production and prices |
| trade bill | a statute that would regulate foreign trade |