(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.
Mattock
Definition:
(n.) An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ball gets away from him for a goal kick and it's still USA 0-0 Jamaica 12.15am BST 38 mins Mattocks has another run at Evans and this time cuts inside.
(2) As halftime approached, a team head coach Peter Vermes described as “watching the game” was still recalibrating, with Mattocks’ 39th-minute goal doubling the lead gifted them by right back, Igor Julião: Down two at half-time, Sporting worked themselves into the game, nearly conceding a third goal after Aurèlien Collin gave up a penalty kick five minutes from time.
(3) Mattocks hits a low, skimming shot that's straight at Howard and that'll do it for the half.
(4) Yet as Real Salt Lake analyst Brian Dunseth explained on air, if you draw a line from Nat Borchers' tackle through the ball, it wouldn't go through Vancouver attacker Darren Mattocks.
(5) In a previous study, we showed that aspirin in the presence of limited amounts of moisture falls to follow Leeson-Mattocks kinetics at 62.5 degrees C. This system has been tested at a series of temperatures, and several plausible models have been tested.
(6) A minute later there's a better chance as Phillips gets forward well down the left to curl in a sharp outswinger onto the head of Darren Mattocks who at least makes Howard save, if not particularly work.
(7) Mattock's goal came from Chris Maguire's accurate delivery as he pounced on a header from Glenn Loovens, and 11 minutes later the left-back was the provider for Oguchi Onyewu, who also scored his first Wednesday goal.
(8) Mandaric watched from the Spotland stand, with longer-term Wednesday stalwarts including Roy Hattersley and David Blunkett, as Joe Mattock, the former England under-21 left back, scored his first goal for the club, set up another but was then dismissed for a second yellow card – all this in the space of 15 second-half minutes to leave the Owls with 10 men for a nervy half hour.
(9) For pseudouridine (Weissman et al., 1962; Dugaiczyk & Eiler, 1966) and 7-methylguanine (Craddock, Mattocks & Magee, 1968), urinary excretion has been shown to be quantitative.
(10) When Mattocks buried the ensuing kick, Vancouver had enought to take a 1-1 out of Rio Tinto.
(11) Mattocks, now an activist for YoungMinds, said: “I was being seen by CAMHS and they always said that if you feel unsafe, go to A&E if it is out of hours, and that happened a lot because that tended to be [when] I would feel unsafe.
(12) USA: Howard; Evans, Cameron, Besler, Beasley; Bedoya, Diskerud, Jones, Donovan; Johannsson, Altidore Jamaica: Kerr; Doyley, Morgan, Mariappa, Phillips; McAnuff, Austin, Watson, Johnson; Mattocks, Brown 11.07pm BST Preamble If it’s meaning you want you’ve come to the right place.This might be the most meaningful game ever played by the US men’s national team.
(13) Kakuta Manneh, the team’s most dangerous player this spring, has lost his starting job, with Darren Mattocks’ return to the lineup pushing Erik Hurtado to one of the team’s wide attacking roles.
(14) Having led early through a Darren Mattocks goal, Vancouver ended up having to come back for the draw and ultimately regretting yet more points dropped from winning positions in a season that’s been something of a mixed bag.
(15) Mattocks tries to liven things up by running at Brad Evans but the Sounders man sticks to his task well to prod the ball out for a throw.
(16) Jamaica meanwhile fielding a very MLS heavy attack, with Vancouver's Mattocks up alongside Colorado's DeShorn Brown.
(17) Again Evans looks to have got the better of his man as he slides in to tackle, but as Mattocks goes sprawling the referee awards a free kick in a dangerous position just left of the D. The dangerous Austin takes it and it skims juuuuuuust wide of Howard's right post.
(18) On their watch, early intervention services are being stripped back, professionals are being told to do more for less, and more children are becoming so ill they need hospital care.” Nicola Mattocks, 18, from Croydon in south London, who has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, recurring depression, post-traumatic stress and social anxiety, said that it had become common for community services to advise that young people attend A&E during out-of-office hours.
(19) b) Biochemical analysis of neuro transmitters according to H. Spatz and Mattock to study clinical and laboratory correlation and guide therapy.
(20) The new programme not only releases school nurse time for developing health promotion activities within the core curriculum, writes Carole Mattock.