Found 4 items, similar to pill.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: pill
pil
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: pill
gentel, pil
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: pill
pill
n 1: something that resembles a pill in shape or size
2: a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet [syn:
lozenge,
tablet,
tab]
3: a unpleasant or tiresome person
4: something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or
endured;
“his competitor's success was a bitter pill to
take”
5: a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen
and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent
conception [syn:
birth control pill,
contraceptive pill,
oral contraceptive pill,
oral contraceptive,
anovulatory drug
,
anovulant]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pill
Pill
\Pill\, n. [F. pilute, L. pilula a pill, little ball, dim.
of L. pila a ball. Cf.
Piles.]
1. A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round
mass, to be swallowed whole.
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2. Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must
be accepted or endured. --Udall.
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Pill beetle (Zo["o]l.), any small beetle of the genus
Byrrhus, having a rounded body, with the head concealed
beneath the thorax.
Pill bug (Zo["o]l.), any terrestrial isopod of the genus
Armadillo, having the habit of rolling itself into a
ball when disturbed. Called also
pill wood louse.
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Pill
\Pill\, n. [Cf.
Peel skin, or
Pillion.]
The peel or skin. [Obs.]
“Some be covered over with crusts,
or hard pills, as the locusts.” --Holland.
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Pill
\Pill\, v. i.
To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
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Pill
\Pill\, v. t. [Cf. L. pilare to deprive of hair, and E.
pill, n. (above).]
1. To deprive of hair; to make bald. [Obs.]
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2. To peel; to make by removing the skin.
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[Jacob] pilled white streaks . . . in the rods.
--Gen. xxx.
37.
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Pill
\Pill\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.
Pilled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pilling.] [F. piller, L. pilare; cf. It. pigliare to take.
Cf.
Peel to plunder.]
To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See
Peel, to
plunder. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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Pillers and robbers were come in to the field to pill
and to rob. --Sir T.
Malroy.
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