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noun

Pill n. The peel or skin. (Obs.) "Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts."

Pill n.

A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.

Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.

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.

verb

Pill v. t. & v. i. (past & past part. pilled; pres. part. pilling) To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder. (Obs.) "Pillers and robbers were come in to the field to pill and to rob."

Pill v. t.

To deprive of hair; to make bald. (Obs.)

To peel; to make by removing the skin. "(Jacob) pilled white streaks... in the rods."

Pill v. i. To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

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"Pill" Quotes from Famous Books

... news that the other three tanks had returned, having reached their objectives. Two had but little opposition and the infantry had found no difficulty in gaining their points of attack. The third tank, however, had had three men wounded at a "pill-box." These pill-boxes are little concrete forts which the German had planted along his line. The walls are of ferro concrete, two to three feet thick. As the tank reached the pill-box, two Germans slipped out of the rear door. Three ...

— Life in a Tank • Richard Haigh

... Almost as he quitted this scene he heard that Francis I. was advancing towards Provence with an army. The king had suddenly decided to go to the succor of Marseilles, which was making so good a defence. Nothing could be a bitterer pill for Bourbon than to retire before Francis I., whom he had but lately promised to dethrone; but his position condemned him to suffer everything, without allowing him the least hesitation; and on the 28th of September, 1524, he raised the siege of Marseilles and ...

— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume IV. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... and men they are ill, dears, You may get the leal or the lazy loon; A lover is aft like a gilded pill, dears, The bitter comes after it's ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. • Revised by Alexander Leighton

... strong vial of clear glass, or a pill bottle with screw or cork top and put into it a piece of phosphorus about the size of a pea and fill the bottle one-third full of pure olive oil that has been heated for 15 minutes—but not boiled. Cork tightly and the result will be a luminous ...

— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics

... leav'; but I leff a piece of mi mind ahind. I toled har I'de buy thet ar 'oman ef she cost all I war wuth and I had ter pawne my sole ter git the money; an' I added, jest by way uv sweet'nin' the pill, thet I owed all I hed ter har husband, an' dident furget my dets ef she did hern, an' ef his own wife disgraced him, I'd ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

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