bill
duckbilled
biller
foot
swanmark
settle
grosbeak
billlike
beccal
invoice
rider
poison pill
clause
lamellirostral
T-bill
brevirostral
editing
hawk-billed
trade acceptance
reckoning
redaction
tally
in hock
tithe
crow's bill
mesorostral
crossbill
revenue bill
Loxia curvirostra
enact
prebill
pocket veto
measure
pecker
dentirostral
neb
remanet
tomium
nebbing
nib
serratirostral
spot
retour sans protêt
accept
levy
joker
cosher
behad
reconsider
protest
broadbill
peck
latirostrate
statutorize
billpaying
expiate
jocundity
drafter
abrook
blue slip
fine
marginirostral
billed
pruning hook
Texas roll
dovish
commitment
oblige
draft
yang
owe someone one
goosequill
toll
accommodation
indebtedly
legislational
without recourse
one
passing
see fit
anserine
grossbeak
amerce
Jefferson
mulct
two
precept
note
scat
metaremark
report out
take down
duckbilled
billlike
beccal
lamellirostral
brevirostral
hawk-billed
mesorostral
dentirostral
serratirostral
behad
latirostrate
marginirostral
billed
dovish
legislational
anserine
indebtedly
biller
swanmark
grosbeak
rider
poison pill
T-bill
editing
trade acceptance
reckoning
redaction
tally
tithe
crow's bill
crossbill
revenue bill
Loxia curvirostra
pocket veto
measure
pecker
neb
remanet
tomium
nebbing
nib
spot
retour sans protêt
levy
joker
protest
broadbill
billpaying
jocundity
drafter
blue slip
pruning hook
Texas roll
commitment
goosequill
accommodation
bill
one
passing
grossbeak
Jefferson
two
precept
scat
metaremark
bill
foot
settle
invoice
clause
enact
prebill
accept
cosher
reconsider
peck
statutorize
expiate
abrook
fine
oblige
draft
yang
owe someone one
toll
see fit
amerce
mulct
note
report out
take down
verb
- to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
- To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
- To charge; to send a bill to.
- To advertise by a bill or public notice.
noun
- Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
- 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 bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
- The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
- Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
- A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
- A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
- The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
- A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
- The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
- A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
- Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
- A piece of paper money; a banknote.
- One hundred dollars.
- A pickaxe, or mattock.
- A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
- A set of items presented together.
- A 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
verb
- To pay (a bill).
- To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
- To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- To walk.
- To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
- To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
noun
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- Travel by walking.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- The bottom edge of a sail.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
- The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
- A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
- The globular lower domain of a protein.
- The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- Foot soldiers; infantry.
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
verb
- To pay (a bill).
- To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
- To silence, especially by force.
- To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
- To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
- To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
- To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
- To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
- To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
- To become married, or a householder.
- To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
- To kill.
- To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
- Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.
- To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).
- To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
- To become compact due to sinking.
- To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.
- To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
- To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
- To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
- In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
- To be established in a profession or in employment.
- To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
- To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
- In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.
- To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.
- To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
- To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
- To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. also used figuratively.)
- To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
- To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
verb
noun
- A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms.
- The lot or set of goods as shipped or received.
- The price which a seller or dealer pays the manufacturer for goods to be sold.
verb
noun
- A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.
- A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is (subordinate) dependent.
- A separate part of a contract, a will or another legal document.
noun
prep_phrase
verb
noun
- A piece of legislation.
- A unit of measurement.
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like.
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- A bed or stratum.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
- The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
verb
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
- To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
noun
- A bird's beak or bill.
- Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill
- Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion
- A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay.
- A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.
- Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes.
- A penis; cock, dick.
- Spirits, nerve, courage.
- A nose.
noun
- The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
- A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
- The shaft of a wagon.
- A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
- Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
- One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
- The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
verb
noun
- A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- An official determination of placement.
- A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- Penalty spot.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- An autosoliton.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A parking space.
- One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- A difficult situation.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A decimal point; point.
- A location or area.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
adj
verb
- To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- To place an object at a location indicated by a spot.
- To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
verb
- To agree to pay.
- To admit to a place or a group.
- To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
- To endure patiently.
- To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
- To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
- To receive officially.
- To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
- To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
- To receive something willingly.
noun
verb
- To raise, as a siege.
- To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
- To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
- To draft someone into military service.
- To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
- To wage war.
- To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
noun
- The noting by a notary public of an unpaid or unaccepted bill.
- A written declaration, usually by the master of a ship, stating the circumstances attending loss or damage of ship or cargo, etc.
- A formal objection, especially one by a group.
- A collective gesture of disapproval; a demonstration.
verb
- to make a solemn written declaration, in due form, on behalf of the holder, against all parties liable for any loss or damage to be sustained by non-acceptance or non-payment of (a bill or note). This should be made by a notary public, whose seal it is the usual practice to affix.
- To affirm (something).
- To object to.
- To make a strong objection.
- To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to.
verb
- To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
- To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
- To type in general.
- To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
- To type by searching for each key individually.
- To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
- To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.
- To throw.
- To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
- To kiss briefly.
noun
verb
verb
noun
- In the House of Representatives, a rejection slip given to tax and spending bills sent to it by the Senate that did not originate in the House, per the House's interpretation of the Origination Clause.
- In the Senate, the slip on which the senators from the state of residence of a federal judicial nominee give an opinion on the nominee.
verb
- To pay a fine.
- To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
- To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
- To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
- To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
- To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
- To change by fine gradations.
noun
- Something that is fine; fine particles.
- A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
- A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.
- The end of a musical composition.
- A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
- A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
- Fine champagne; French brandy.
- The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
adj
- Of superior quality.
- Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
- Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
- Made of slender or thin filaments.
- Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.
- An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.
- Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
- Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
- Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
- Good-looking, attractive.
- Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.
- Sunny and not raining.
- Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
- Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
adv
noun
noun
- The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.
- The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.
- The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
- State of being pledged or engaged.
- Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution.
- Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially
- Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.
- Perpetration as in a crime or mistake.
- Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date.
verb
- To write a law.
- To draw out; to call forth.
- To conscript a person, force a person to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.
- To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed.
- To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.
- To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
- To select someone (or something) for a particular role or purpose.
- To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.
- To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.
- To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.
noun
- Conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.
- The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
- The draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.
- The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition.
- An act of drinking.
- A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.
- A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.
- A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
- The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.
- An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing.
- The depth of water needed to float a particular ship; the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull; the depth of water drawn by a vessel.
- Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
- A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).
- A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
- A cheque, an order for money to be paid.
adj
verb
- To pay a toll or tallage.
- To summon by ringing a bell.
- To draw; entice; invite; allure.
- To make a sound as if made by a bell.
- To levy a toll on (someone or something).
- To announce by tolling.
- To suspend.
- To take as a toll.
- To impose a fee for the use of.
- To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
- To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
- To tear in pieces.
noun
- A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
- A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
- Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
- A tollbooth.
- A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
- The act or sound of tolling.
noun
- An accommodation bill or note.
- The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
- The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
- The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
- Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
- An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
- The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
- A loan of money.
- A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
- Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
- An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.
- Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
- The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
- Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
noun
- A one-dollar bill.
- One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
- A joke or amusing anecdote.
- A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
- Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".
- The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
- One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- The digit or figure 1.
particle
- Used to emphasize or explain something, with an implied antecedent.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something.
- A nominalizer; used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.
num
- The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
- The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
- The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
- The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
pron
- The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
- Functions as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause.
- Any person (applying to people in general).
- One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
- Any person, entity or thing.
- Used as a noun substituent following a possessive determiner.
verb
adj
noun
- The act of approving a bill etc.
- The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.
- A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.
- The ability of a person to be regarded as a member of an identity group or category different from their own.
- The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.
- Death, dying; the end of something.
adj
verb
noun
name
- A town and census-designated place therein, in Schoharie County, New York.
- An unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Houston County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama.
- A borough in York County, Pennsylvania.
- A city, the county seat of Marion County, Texas.
- A census-designated place in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
- A small town in Grant County, Oklahoma.
- A town, the county seat of Ashe County, North Carolina.
- A town in Lincoln County, Maine.
- A village, the county seat of Ashtabula County, Ohio.
- A town in Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Jefferson Township.
- An English surname originating as a patronymic; (US politics) used specifically of Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), the third president of the United States, principal author of the US Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential founders of the United States.
- A city, the county seat of Greene County, Iowa.
- A village in Holden, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
- A census-designated place in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
- A town in Green County, Wisconsin.
- A city, the county seat of Jackson County, Georgia.
- A minor city in Union County, South Dakota.
- A town in Monroe County, Wisconsin.
- A city, the county seat of Jefferson County, Wisconsin.
- An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Kansas.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
- A borough in Greene County, Pennsylvania.
- An unincorporated community in Park County, Colorado.
- An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Clinton County, Indiana.
- A town in Coos County, New Hampshire.
- An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Arkansas.
- A census-designated place in Frederick County, Maryland.
- A city in Marion County, Oregon.
- A town in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, the city is partially within it.
- A community in Cardston County, Alberta, Canada.
verb
- make a written note of
- make mention of
- notice or perceive
- observe with care or pay close attention to
noun
- a brief written record
- a short personal letter
- a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
- a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling
- a characteristic emotional quality
- a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
- a comment or instruction (usually added)
- high status importance owing to marked superiority
- a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time
noun
- A tax; tribute.
- Animal excrement; droppings, dung.
- Coprophilia.
- Heroin.
- Any fish in the family Scatophagidae
- A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
- A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
- Scat singing.
intj
- An imperative demand to leave, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.
- Scat! Go on! Get out of here!
verb
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