Bill

A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

To strike; to peck.

To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.

The bell, or boom, of the bittern

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.

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.

One who wields a bill; a billman.

A pickax, or mattock.

The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.

To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.

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.

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 form or 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; a placard; a poster; a handbill.

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.

Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.

To advertise by a bill or public notice.

To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.

a statute in draft before it becomes law; "they held a public hearing on the bill"

a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)

a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a poster advertised the coming attractions"

an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers"

horny projecting mouth of a bird

an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered; "he paid his bill and left"; "send me an account of what I owe"

a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes; "he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead"

the entertainment offered at a public presentation