(n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
(v. i.) To strike; to peck.
(v. i.) To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.
(n.) The bell, or boom, of the bittern
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) One who wields a bill; a billman.
(n.) A pickax, or mattock.
(n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
(v. t.) To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.
(v. t.) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
(v. t.) To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(2) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
(3) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
(4) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
(5) Polls indicated that anger over the government shutdown, which was sharply felt in parts of northern Virginia, as well as discomfort with Cuccinelli's deeply conservative views, handed the race to McAuliffe, a controversial Democratic fundraiser and close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
(6) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(7) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
(8) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(9) A new bill, to be published this week with the aim of turning it into law by next month, will allow the government to use Britain's low borrowing rates to guarantee the £40bn in infrastructure projects and £10bn for underwriting housing projects.
(10) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
(11) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
(12) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
(13) Private landowners are able to use property guardians to minimise their tax bills and, although it is hard to estimate, the potential financial loss to councils is substantial.
(14) "We must be clear that there can be no letup in our efforts to seek ways to remove Bill Walker from parliament," Rennie said.
(15) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(16) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
(17) It is understood that Labor, the Greens and the crossbench will seek to remove many of these additional measures, leaving the bill focused on the visa issue.
(18) As a member of the state Assembly, Walker voted for a bill known as the Woman’s Right to Know Act, which required physicians to provide women with full information prior to an abortion and established a 24-hour waiting period in the hope that some women might change their mind about undergoing the procedure.
(19) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
(20) Earlier this week the Obama administration said it would veto the bill unless major amendments were made.
Lill
Definition:
(v. i.) To loll.
Example Sentences:
(1) Group A Villarreal, Borussia Mönchengladbach, FC Zurich, Apollon Limassol Group B FC Copenhagen, Brugge, Torino, HJK Helsinki Group C Tottenham Hotspur , Besiktas, Partizan Belgrade, Asteras Tripoli Group D Red Bull Salzburg, Celtic , Dinamo Zagreb, FC Astra Group E PSV, Panathinaikos, Estoril Praia, Dynamo Moscow Group F Internazionale, Dnipro, St Etienne, FK Karabakh Group G Sevilla, Standard Liège, Feyenoord, Rijeka Group H Lille, Wolfsburg, Everton , Krasnodar Group I Napoli, Sparta Prague, Young Boys, Slovan Bratislava Group J Dynamo Kyiv, Steaua Bucharest, Rio Ave, AaB Group K Fiorentina, PAOK, Guingamp, Dinamo Minsk Group L Metalist Kharkiv, Trabzonspor, Legia Warsaw, Lokeren
(2) "To be honest, I dream of the Premier League," replied the Lille forward, setting hearts a-trembling across England.
(3) This suggested that the high-conducting form of CF0 with a time-averaged single-channel conductance of 1 pS [Lill, H., Althoff, G. & Junge, W. (1987) J. Membrane Biol.
(4) In 1985, the age-standardized (25-64) attack rate (per 100,000) for myocardial infarction, among men was 240 in the Bas-Rhin, 219 in the Haute-Garonne and 231 in the urban community of Lille and among women, respectively, 58, 28 and 51.
(5) Cavani misses condemn Paris Saint-Germain to draw with Lille Read more The club president, Nasser al-Khelaifi, articulated that connection when the player signed last summer, proclaiming: “With him, we are more confident and closer to our dream of winning the Champions League .” Manager Laurent Blanc echoes that idea.
(6) Lille were a club whose glory days of the 1940s and 1950s seemed a distant memory but Puel transformed them into genuine title contenders in his six years at the helm, finishing as runners-up in 2004-05.
(7) The ECTIM study, which is based on WHO MONICA centers in Belfast (Northern Ireland), Strasbourg (eastern France), Toulouse (southwestern France), and Lille (northern France), has been established to investigate this striking difference.
(8) Between 1971 and 1987, 60 patients presenting 68 pheochromocytomas were operated on in the University Teaching Hospital of Lille.
(9) This study takes in account all post operative deaths during the year 1990 in one surgical Professorial unit of Lille academic hospital (France).
(10) In a club like Lille, he can move forward.” Meanwhile, Angers have yet to receive any concrete bids for Boufal’s former team-mate Romain Thomas.
(11) Asp(7) may interact with a remote residue of fibrinogen, not present in these synthetic peptides, or there may be additional mutations beyond A alpha (1-20) which have not been detected in fibrinogen Lille.
(12) It was my wife who phoned me to point out that the date might be a problem.” Gunter’s parents will watch him in Lille on Friday before flying out to join what bits of the wedding party remain in Mexico.
(13) The party still faces a barrage of tactical voting by the right and left to stop it winning final-round votes – described by one Lille party worker as “the onslaught of an armada”.
(14) The estimation of the variants' relative mobility at three pH allowed us to distinguish three fast-moving variants (Gent, Vanves, and Reading) and five slow-moving variants (Sondrio, Roma, Christchurch, Lille, and B) in the French population.
(15) The ATP-hydrolytic activity of SecA protein is stimulated up to 100-fold by the translocation-competent precursor to outer membrane protein A (pro-OmpA) in conjunction with inner-membrane vesicles bearing active SecY [Lill, R., Cunningham, K., Brundage, L., Ito, K., Oliver, D. & Wickner, W. (1989) EMBO J.
(16) Federer is expected to do his best to play alongside Wawrinka for Switzerland in the Davis Cup final against France in Lille, which starts on Friday.
(17) Fans will instead be urged to head for Lille or remain elsewhere in France where fanzones will be better able to cope with large numbers.
(18) We’ve got to look to kick on next season.” One definite arrival is the Belgian forward Divock Origi but, aged 20 and having competed in only two full seasons for Lille, he is another who cannot be asked to add nous immediately.
(19) The outcome of 87 pregnancies obtained by fertilisation in vitro and progressing beyond 20 weeks of amenorrhea monitored in the Victor-Olivier Ward (Prof. Monnier, Lille Teaching Hospital Group) was analysed.
(20) Meanwhile Alan Pardew, Newcastle's manager, has reached an impasse in his attempts to prise the France right-back Mathieu Debuchy away from Lille, the Brazilian central defender Douglas from FC Twente and Andy Carroll from Liverpool.