Word Finder - bills

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Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.

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• polearm

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A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.

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• billhook
• hand bill
• hedge bill

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Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.

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• billman

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A pickaxe, or mattock.

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The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).

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To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.

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The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.

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• beak
• neb
• nib
• pecker

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A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.

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Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.

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To peck

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To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness

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A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)

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A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)

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A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

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• measure

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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.

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A piece of paper money; a banknote.

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A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.

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• account
• invoice

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A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods

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• notice
• placard
• broadsheet
• broadside
• card
• circular
• flier
• flyer
• handbill
• poster
• posting
• throwaway

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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 bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.

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• Federal Reserve note
• bank bill
• bank note
• banker's bill
• banknote
• government note
• greenback
• note

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A set of items presented together.

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To advertise by a bill or public notice.

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• placard

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To charge; to send a bill to.

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• charge

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The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

The money she had saved would have to go toward doctor bills now.

The bills (leges Appuleiae) were finally passed by the aid of the Marian veterans.

I could be a room mate – help you with the bills and pay rent.

And recognize we have a life, even if it's only by necessity; the bills keep coming and I get hungry once in a while.

Connie said you were coming over to get the bills this evening.

Bills may originate in either house, but in about half of the states money bills must originate in the House of Representativesa survival of British custom which has here, where both houses equally represent the people, no functional value.

I don't need help with the bills.

You're paying the bills?

In 1917 he gave his support to the declaration of war against Germany, and also to all the war measures, including the Selective Draft and Espionage bills.

Good bye good times and good wine; bring on the boxed stuff and bills.

They're getting rid of stuff from people who didn't pay their bills.

The cast skipped town leaving a peck of unpaid bills.

After greeting the group with a hearty wave, he proudly handed a surprised Cynthia Dean a wad of bills.

Truth be known, he felt a small measure of relief, at least until he opened the mail to a flurry of bills.

We'll save the mysteries for Fred to solve while we try to pay the bills.

He then reached into his pocket for his snap-top purse and extracted five worn twenty-dollar bills.

I pay my own bills.

Only your bicycling magazine, a few circulars and a couple of bills.

I pitched out the junk mail and paid the bills.

Now she was costing him time at the clinic, an ambulance bill and who knew what kind of medical bills?

Reports to the Postmaster-General upon proposals for transferring to the Post Of f ice the Telegraphs throughout the United Kingdom (1868); Special Reports from Select Committee on the Electric Telegraphs Bills (1868, 1869); Report by Mr Scudamore on the reorganization of the Telegraph system of the United Kingdom (1871); Journ.

There is a general tendency among these insular birds to vary more or less from their continental representatives, and this is especially shown by the former having always darker plumage and stronger bills and legs.

Opposition on petition could be heard before a select committee or a joint committee as in the case of private bills.

Similar amending bills were introduced in the 1905 and 1906 sessions, but were withdrawn.

He took a prominent part in the dispute in 1671 between the two Houses concerning the right of the Lords to amend money bills, and wrote a learned pamphlet on the question entitled The Privileges of the House of Lords and Commons (1702), in which the right of the Lords was asserted.

It meets in regular session quadrennially, in special sessions in the middle of the interval to pass the appropriation and revenue bills, and in extraordinary session whenever the governor sees fit to call it.

The passing of some 3500 enclosure bills, affecting between 5 and 5z million acres, during the reign of George III., before which the whole number was between 200 and 250, shows how rapidly the break-up of the common-field husbandry and the cultivation of new land now proceeded.

These two bodies nominally formed the legislature, the Tribunate merely discussing the bills sent to it by an important body, the Council of State; while the Corps Legislatif, sitting in silence, heard them defended by councillors of state and criticized by members of the Tribunate; thereupon it passed or rejected such proposals by secret voting.

Independence is further curtailed by other state boards semi-independent of the city - the police commission of three members from 1885 to 1906, and in 1906 a single police commissioner, appointed by the governor, a licensing board of three members, appointed by the governor; the transit commission, &c. There are, further, county offices (Suffolk county comprises only Boston, Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop), generally independent of the city, though the latter pays practically all the bills.

But Bourne and his friends persisted against both Conference and the local super intendent, who issued bills declaring that no camp-meeting would be held at Norton in August 1807.

He also set on foot a postal system between Muscovy, Courland and Poland, and introduced gazettes and bills of exchange into Russia.

The veto power of the governor (since 1876) extends to separate sections of appropriation bills.

Meanwhile, the immediate necessities of the government were provided for by the issue through Messrs Rothschild of £2,000,000 fresh treasury bills.

After the passing of this resolution the cry against the House of Lords rapidly weakened, since it became clear at the by-elections (culminating at Peckham in March 1908) that the "will of the people" was by no means unanimously on the side of the bills which had failed to pass.

He brought bills into parliament to reform Church patronage and Church discipline, and worked unremittingly for years in their behalf.

Further the area of the metropolis for local government purposes was for the first time defined, being the same as that adopted in the Commissioners of Sewers Act, which had been taken from the area of the weekly bills of mortality.

The Bills of Mortality of the 16th and 17th centuries are of more value, and they have been considered and revised by such able statisticians as John Graunt and Sir William Petty.

He estimates the population to have been 180,000 persons, which Dr Creighton affirms to be nearly three times the number that we obtain by a moderate calculation from the bills of mortality in 1532 and 1 535.

To return to the 16th century when the Bills of Mortality came into existence.

The history of the Bills of Mortality which in the early years were intermittent in their publication is of much interest, and Dr Creighton has stated it with great clearness.

The Company of Parish Clerks is named in an ordinance of 1581 (of which there is a copy in the Record Office) as the body responsible for the bills, and their duties were then said to be " according to the Order in that behalf heretofore provided."

There is a set of Annual Bills from 1658 (with the exception of the years 1756 to 1764) in the library of the British Museum.3 These bills were not analysed and general results obtained from them until 1662, when Captain John Graunt first published his valuable Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of 1 In a valuable paper on " The Population of Old London" in Blackwood's Magazine for April 1891.

The bills were killed by the action of the Registration Act for England and Wales, which came into operation July 1, 1837.

This is accounted for by the larger area contained in the bills of mortality compared with that containing only the city and its liberties.

These figures include (1) the City of London within and (2) without the walls, (3) the City and Liberties of Westminster, (4) the outparishes within the bills of mortality and (5) the parishes not within the bills of mortality.

The passage at first runs obliquely upwards in the bank, sometimes to a distance of as much as 50 ft., and expands at its termination into a cavity, the floor of which is lined with dried grass and leaves, and in which, it is said, the eggs are laid' and the young brought up. Their food consists of aquatic insects, small crustaceans and worms, which are caught under water, the sand and small stones at the bottom being turned over with their bills to find them.

Hostility to the bills grew apace.

After Anne's accession he supported the bills in 1702 and 1704 against occasional conformity, and took a leading part in the disputes which arose between the two Houses.

Important innovations in the constitution of 1897 are the office of lieutenantgovernor, and the veto power of the governor which may extend to parts and clauses of appropriation bills, but a bill may be passed over his veto by a three-fifths vote of each house of the legislature, and a bill becomes a law if not returned to the legislature withil l ten days after its reception by the governor, unless the session of the legislature shall have expired in the meantime.

In commercial and banking usage "cash" is sometimes confined to specie; it is also, in opposition to bills, drafts or securities, applied to bank-notes.