Addle-headed
(a.) Alt. of Addle-pated |
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. |
Beetle-headed
(a.) Dull |
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. |
Bluff-headed
(a.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down. |
Bristle
(n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine. |
Bristle
(n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair. |
Bristle
(v. t.) To erect the bristles of |
Bristle
(v. t.) To fix a bristle to |
Bristle
(v. i.) To rise or stand erect, like bristles. |
Bristle
(v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles |
Bristle
(v. i.) To show defiance or indignation. |
Bristle-pointed
(a.) Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves. |
Bristle-shaped
(a.) Resembling a bristle in form |
Brown bill
() A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. |
Buckler-headed
(a.) Having a head like a buckler. |
Buffle-headed
(a.) Having a large head, like a buffalo |
Clear-headed
(a.) Having a clear understanding |
Cool-headed
(a.) Having a temper not easily excited |
Crane's-bill
(n.) The geranium |
Crane's-bill
(n.) A pair of long-beaked forceps. |
Dog-headed
(a.) Having a head shaped like that of a dog |
Double-headed
(a.) Having two heads |
Duck's-bill
(a.) Having the form of a duck's bill. |
Dunder-headed
(a.) Thick-headed |
Feather-headed
(a.) Giddy |
Flat-headed
(a.) Having a head with a flattened top |
Giddy-headed
(a.) Thoughtless |
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 |
grey market
gray market | an unofficial market in which goods are bought and sold at prices lower than the official price set by a regulatory agency |
| 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 |
grey skate
gray skate
Raja batis | common European skate used as food |
grey kingbird
gray kingbird
petchary
Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis | a kingbird that breeds in the southeastern United States and winters in tropical America, similar to but larger than the eastern kingbird |
Canada jay
grey jay
gray jay
camp robber
whisker jack
Perisoreus canadensis | a jay of northern North America with blackapped head and no crest, noted for boldness in thievery |
catbird grey catbird
gray catbird
Dumetella carolinensis | North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing |
blue-headed vireo
Vireo solitarius solitarius | common vireo of northeastern North America with bluish slaty-grey head |
ern
erne
grey sea eagle
gray sea eagle
European sea eagle
white-tailed sea eagle
Haliatus albicilla | bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail, of Europe and Greenland |
great grey owl
great gray owl
Strix nebulosa | large dish-faced owl of northern North America and western Eurasia |
lowland burrowing treefrog
northern casque-headed frog
Pternohyla fodiens | terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head, of the United States southwest |
| bone-headed dinosaur | bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns |
| black-headed snake | small secretive ground-living snake, found from central United States to Argentina |
rubber boa
tow-headed snake
Charina bottae | boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North America, looks and feels like rubber with tail and head of similar shape |
beak
bill
neb nib
pecker | horny projecting mouth of a bird |
greyhen
grayhen
grey hen
gray hen
heath hen | female black grouse |
Hungarian partridge
grey partridge
gray partridge
Perdix perdix | common European partridge |
African grey
African gray
Psittacus erithacus | commonly domesticated grey parrot with red-and-black tail and white face, native to equatorial Africa |
giant kangaroo
great grey kangaroo
Macropus giganteus | very large greyish-brown Australian kangaroo formerly abundant in open wooded areas |
| bristle | a stiff hair |
acanthocephalan
spiny-headed worm | any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
white-headed stilt
Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus | stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck |
grey whale
gray whale
devilfish Eschrichtius gibbosus
Eschrichtius robustus | medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific |
timber wolf
grey wolf
gray wolf
Canis lupus | a wolf with a brindled grey coat living in forested northern regions of North America |
grey fox
gray fox
Urocyon cinereoargenteus | dark grey American fox, from Central America through southern United States |
grey lemming
gray lemming
red-backed lemming | Old World lemming |
eastern grey squirrel
eastern gray squirrel
cat squirrel Sciurus carolinensis | common medium-large squirrel of eastern North America, now introduced into England |
western grey squirrel
western gray squirrel
Sciurus griseus | large grey squirrel of far western areas of United States |
grey
gray | horse of a light gray or whitish color |
grey snapper
gray snapper
mangrove snapper
Lutjanus griseus | found in shallow waters off the coast of Florida |
mullet grey mullet
gray mullet | freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body, found worldwide |
grey flounder
gray flounder
Etropus rimosus | flounder found from North Carolina to Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico |
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 |
| bristle | a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament), natural or synthetic |
| bristle brush | a brush that is made with the short stiff hairs of an animal or plant |
gaffsail
gaff-headed sail | a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff |
grey
gray | clothing that is a grey color, he was dressed in grey |
gray
grayness
grey
greyness | a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black |
ash grey
ash gray
silver
silver grey
silver gray | a light shade of grey |
charcoal
charcoal grey
charcoal gray
oxford grey
oxford gray | a very dark grey color |
dapple-grey
dapple-gray
dappled-grey
dappled-gray | grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings |
iron-grey
iron-gray | the color of freshly broken cast iron |
tattletale grey
tattletale gray | a greyish white |
grey matter
gray matter
grey substance
gray substance
substantia grisea | greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers, forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons |
grey area
gray area | an intermediate area, a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other |
| 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) |