Pill /(?)/
Pill
n.
- The peel or skin. [Obs.]
Pill
v. i.
- To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
Pill
v. t.
- To deprive of hair; to make bald. [Obs.]
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To peel; to make by removing the skin.
[Jacob] pilled white streaks . . . in the rods.
Pill
v. t. & i.
imp. & p. p. Pilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Pilling
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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
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.
Phrases & Compounds
- Pill beetle
- any small beetle of the genus Byrrhus, having a rounded body, with the head concealed beneath the thorax.
- Pill bug
- any terrestrial isopod of the genus Armadillo, having the habit of rolling itself into a ball when disturbed. Called also pill wood louse.