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. |
Bat printing () A mode of printing on glazed ware. |
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. |
Houses (pl. ) of House |
House (n.) A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind |
House (n.) Household affairs |
House (n.) Those who dwell in the same house |
House (n.) A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred |
House (n.) One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature |
House (n.) A firm, or commercial establishment. |
House (n.) A public house |
House (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours. |
House (n.) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. |
House (n.) An audience |
House (n.) The body, as the habitation of the soul. |
House (n.) The grave. |
House (v. t.) To take or put into a house |
House (v. t.) To drive to a shelter. |
House (v. t.) To admit to residence |
House (v. t.) To deposit and cover, as in the grave. |
House (v. t.) To stow in a safe place |
House (v. i.) To take shelter or lodging |
House (v. i.) To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8. |