GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Pill , n. [Cf. Peel skin, or Pillion.] The peel or skin. [Obs.] “Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts.”  
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   Pill, v. i. To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
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   Pill, v. t. [Cf. L. pilare to deprive of hair, and E. pill, n. (above).]
   To deprive of hair; to make bald. [Obs.]
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   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 , 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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   Pill , n. [F. pilute, L. pilula a pill, little ball, dim. of L. pila a ball.  Cf. Piles.]
   A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
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   Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
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   Pill beetle (Zool.), any small beetle of the genus Byrrhus, having a rounded body, with the head concealed beneath the thorax. -- Pill bug (Zool.), 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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