n. The beak or neb of a bird.n. The beak, snout, rostrum, or jaws of sundry other animals, as turtles, cephalopods, many fishes, etc.To join bills or beaks, as doves; caress in fondness.To rub the bill.n. In the earliest use, a kind of broadsword.n. An obsolete military weapon, consisting of a broad hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the summit, fixed to a long handle.n. A cutting instrument with a blade hook-shaped toward the point, or having a concave cutting edge, used by plumbers, basket-makers, gardeners, and others.n. A pickax; a mattock.n. Nautical: The point or extremity of the fluke of an anchor.n. The end of compass- or knee-timber.n. A writing of any kind, as a will, a medical prescription, etc.; a billet.n. A written petition; a prayer.n. In law, a name given to several papers in lawsuits; particularly, when used alone, to the bill in equity or bill of indictment (see below).n. In com., a written statement of the names, quantities, and prices of articles sold by one person to another, with the date of sale, or a statement of work done, with the amount charged; an account of money claimed for goods supplied or services rendered.n. An acknowledgment of debt; a promissory note: now obsolete except as sometimes used, especially in the United States, for bank-note. See 10.n. A bill of exchange (which see, below).n. Any written paper containing a statement of particulars: as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a bill of fare or provisions, etc.n. A form or draft of a proposed statute presented to a legislature, but not yet enacted or passed and made law.n. A paper written or printed, and intended to give public notice of something, especially by being exhibited in some public place; an advertisement posted; a placard.n. A banknote: usually with its amount: as, a five-dollar bill.n. Paper issued by the authority and on the faith of a State to be circulated as money. The Constitution of the United States (Art. I. § 10) provides that no State shall emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.n. the sum to be paid;n. two dates, namely, the date of drawing and a time for payment or the means of determining the time, as where the bill is payable at sight or a certain time after sight, that is, presentment;n. the place where it is drawn. If the drawer and drawee are the same person, even in legal effect of name, as where a corporation by one officer draws on itself by naming another officer, as such, as the payee, the paper is not a bill of exchange, but a mere draft or promissory note. The drawer and the payee, however, may be the same, as where one draws to his own order and indorses to a third person. If the paper is not payable absolutely, as where it is expressed to be payable only out of a particular fund, it is not a bill of exchange; but a payment absolutely ordered may be directed to be charged to a particular account of the drawer. The words “value received” are usually inserted, but are not essential to validity. The drawee of a bill becomes liable by accepting it, usually done by writing his name across its face, and he is thereafter called the accepter; but a bill is negotiable before acceptance. In a foreign bill of exchange, the drawer and drawee are residents of different countries. In this respect, in the United States, the residents of the different States are foreign to one another.n. A similar statement or declaration of personal rights in the constitution of a State of the American Union, and incorporated in the amendments to the Constitution of the United States.n. A legislative bill appropriating an amount of money required to make up the deficiency of a previous appropriation which has proved inadequate.To enter in a bill; make a bill or list of; charge or enter in an account for future payment: as, to bill goods or freight to a consignee; to bill passengers in a stage-coach; to bill a customer's purchases. See book, v. t.To advertise by bill or public notice; announce on a play-bill: as, he was billed to appear as Othello.n. A bellow or roar: applied to the boom of the bittern.n. A headland: as, the bill of Portland (England).To furnish or cover with bills or advertisements; placard: as, to bill the town.