pill
pill (pil)
noun
- a small ball, tablet, capsule, etc. of medicine to be swallowed whole
- anything unpleasant but unavoidable
- something like a pill in shape
- Slang a baseball, golf ball, etc.
- Slang an unpleasant or boring person
Etymology: LME pylle, contr. < L pilula, dim. of pila, a ball: see piles
transitive verb
- to dose with pills
- to form into pills
- Slang to blackball
intransitive verb
pill (pil)
transitive verb, intransitive verb
- Archaic to pillage; plunder
- Now Brit., Dialectal to peel
Etymology: ME pilien, to rob, peel, ult. < ? L pilare, to make bald < pilus, a hair
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