| • | A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other
   animal. | 
											
															| • | To strike; to peck. | 
											
															| • | To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. | 
											
															| • | The bell, or boom, of the bittern | 
											
															| • | A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with
   a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a
   hand bill, when long, a hedge bill. | 
											
															| • | A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A
   common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged,
   hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the
   top, and attached to the end of a long staff. | 
											
															| • | One who wields a bill; a billman. | 
											
															| • | A pickax, or mattock. | 
											
															| • | The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond
   the fluke. | 
											
															| • | To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything)
   with a bill. | 
											
															| • | A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the
   complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by
   some person against a law. | 
											
															| • | A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum
   at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be
   stated in the document. | 
											
															| • | A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for
   enactment; a proposed or projected law. | 
											
															| • | A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to
   advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a
   placard; a poster; a handbill. | 
											
															| • | An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done,
   with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross
   or by items; as, a grocer's bill. | 
											
															| • | Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill
   of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare,
   etc. | 
											
															| • | To advertise by a bill or public notice. | 
											
															| • | To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods. |