noun

1. a small ball, tablet, capsule, etc. of medicine to be swallowed whole
2. anything unpleasant but unavoidable
3. 1. something like a pill in shape
   2. Slang a baseball, golf ball, etc.
4. Slang an unpleasant or boring person

Etymology: LME pylle, contr. < L pilula, dim. of pila, a ball: see piles

transitive verb

1. to dose with pills
2. to form into pills
3. Slang to blackball

intransitive verb

transitive verb, intransitive verb

1. Archaic to pillage; plunder
2. Now Brit., Dialectal to peel

Etymology: ME pilien, to rob, peel, ult. < ? L pilare, to make bald < pilus, a hair