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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

... wide vista of richly cultivated fields where many hamlets are scattered among clumps of trees. One came to G. H. Q. from journeys over the wild desert of the battlefields, where men lived in ditches and "pill-boxes," muddy, miserable in all things but spirit, as to a place where the pageantry of war still maintained its old and dead tradition. It was like one of those pageants which used to be played in England before the war—picturesque, romantic, utterly unreal. ...

— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs

... try callin' him 'Phil.' It went all right when he was standin' quiet. But when he got to goin' I was lucky if I could holler just 'Whoa, Pill!' The 'h' got jarred loose every time. 'Course, bein' a puncher now,"—and Sundown threw out his chest,—"it's different. Anyhow, Pill is his name because there ain't anything a doc ever give a fella that can stir up your insides worse 'n he ...

— Sundown Slim • Henry Hubert Knibbs

... same rules. It is better to plant as the work progresses. Either plants or seed may be used. If it is seed, press carefully into the soil in the front of the crevices. Small seed may be mixed in thin mud and this plastered on the soil. For a tiny crevice make a pill ...

— Making A Rock Garden • Henry Sherman Adams

... But the bitter pill of defeat had to be swallowed in some way, so the convention delegated M. Thiers to represent the executive power of the country, with authority to construct a ministry three commissioners were appointed by the Executive, to enter into further negotiations ...

— The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete • General Philip Henry Sheridan

... when we get to work together they'll have to eat it dry. Listen to me, my boy! There are a hundred and twenty thousand folk in this town, all shrieking for advice, and there isn't a doctor who knows a rhubarb pill from a calculus. Man, we only have to gather them in. I stand and take the ...

— The Stark Munro Letters • J. Stark Munro

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