Vocabulary : bill to Billbug
bill : 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 dayBill book : A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives.
Bill broker : One who negotiates the discount of bills.
Bill holder : A person who holds a bill or acceptance. ;; A device by means of which bills, etc., are held.
Billabong : In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.
