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.