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Pronunciation : Pill
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Cf. Peel skin, or Pillion.]
Definition : Defn: The peel or skin. [Obs.] "Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts." Holland.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Pill
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Pill
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Cf. L. pilare to deprive of hair, and E. pill, n. (above).]
Definition : 1. To deprive of hair; to make bald. [Obs.]

2. To peel; to make by removing the skin. [Jacob] pilled white streaks . . . in the rods. Gen. xxx. 37.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Pill
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [F. piller, L. pilare; cf. It. pigliare to take. Cf. Peel to plunder.]
Definition : Defn: To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder. [Obs.] Spenser. Pillers and robbers were come in to the field to pill and to rob. Sir T. Malroy.

t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Pilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Pilling.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Pill
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [F. pilute, L. pilula a pill, little ball, dim. of L. pila a ball. Cf. Piles.]
Definition : 1. A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.

2. Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured. Udall. Pill beetle (Zo?l.), any small beetle of the genus Byrrhus, having a rounded body, with the head concealed beneath the thorax. -- Pill bug (Zo?l.), any terrestrial isopod of the genus Armadillo, having the habit of rolling itself into a ball when disturbed. Called also pill wood louse.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913