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



Pill  n.  
1.
A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
2.
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.  
1.
To deprive of hair; to make bald. (Obs.)
2.
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



... and that is the preservation and expansion of the body of human thought and imagination, of which all conscious human will and act is but the imperfect expression and realization, of which all human institutions and contrivances, from the steam-engine to the ploughed field, and from the blue pill to the printing press, are no more than the imperfect symbols, the rude ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells

... Maine, who had been both a peddler and a pedagogue in his day. He had all manner of stories to tell about nice little country frolics, and would run over an endless list of his sweethearts. He was honest, acute, witty, full of mirth and good humour—a laughing philosopher. He was invaluable as a pill against the spleen; and, with the view of extending the advantages of his society to the saturnine Nord, I introduced them to each other; but Nord cut him dead the very same evening, when we sallied out from between the guns for ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville

... them. I can't change their morals. I must just be a friend to them, cheer them up in their sorrows, give them a bit if they're starving, doctor them a little. I'm a first-rate hand at making an Arab take a pill or a powder!—when they are ill, and make them at home with the white marabout. That's what the sun has taught me, and every sand-rascal and sand-rascal's child in Amara is a ...
— The Garden Of Allah • Robert Hichens

... to give that surprise party a first-class surprise," chuckled Dick. "Shall I drop a pill or two down among them, just to let them know ...
— A Daughter of the Dons - A Story of New Mexico Today • William MacLeod Raine

... pill, Tom, and slap it right into the thick of 'em this time; we mustn't let 'em surround us at no price," exclaimed old Mildmay. "Turn round on your thwarts, lads, and pull the boat gently up stream, starn first, so's to keep our bull-dog forward there facing 'em. Now, ...
— The Congo Rovers - A Story of the Slave Squadron • Harry Collingwood


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