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n. A small pellet or tablet of medicine, often coated, taken by swallowing whole or by chewing.

n. Informal An oral contraceptive. Used with the.

n. Slang Something, such as a baseball, that resembles a pellet of medicine.

n. Something both distasteful and necessary.

n. Slang An insipid or ill-natured person.

v. To dose with pills.

v. To make into pills.

v. Slang To blackball.

verb-intransitive. To form small balls resembling pills: a sweater that pills.

verb-intransitive. Chiefly British To come off, as in flakes or scales.

v. Archaic To subject to extortion.

v. To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.

v. To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.

n. An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.

n. A small, usually cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.

n. Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill.

n. A comical or entertaining person.

n. A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.

n. A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile by rubbing.

n. A baseball.

n. (informal) a bullet (projectile)

v. Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.

v. To form into the shape of a pill.

v. To medicate with pills.

n. The peel or skin.

verb-intransitive. To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

v. To deprive of hair; to make bald.

v. To peel; to make by removing the skin.

v. To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See peel, to plunder.

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

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

To rob; plunder; pillage.

To rob; practise robbery; plunder.

To deprive of hair; make bald. Compare pilled.

To peel; strip; form by stripping off the skin or bark.

To peel; come off in flakes.

n. Peel; skin; rind; outer covering.

n. The refuse of a hawk's prey.

n. A globular or ovoid mass of medicinal substance, of a size convenient for swallowing.

n. Hence Something unpleasant that has to be accepted or (metaphorically) swallowed: usually qualified by bitter.

n. A disagreeable or objectionable person.

n. plural A doctor or surgeon.

n. In varnish-making, the cooked mass of linseed-oil and gum before turpentine is added to thin it down and complete the varnish.

To form into pills.

To dose with pills.

To reject by vote; blackball.

n. A small creek; one of the channels through which the drainings of a marsh enter a river.

n. something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size

n. something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured

n. a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception

n. a unpleasant or tiresome person

n. a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet

"The half-life of a melatonin pill is short and it doesn't last long; a patch, on the other hand, can deliver small doses throughout its use to keep the levels in the body consistent for a longer, stronger effect."

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