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pill

1  [pil]
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–noun
1. a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
2. something unpleasant that has to be accepted or endured: Ingratitude is a bitter pill.
3. Slang. a tiresomely disagreeable person.
4. Sports Slang. a ball, esp. a baseball or golf ball.
5. the pill. birth-control pill.
6. pills, British Slang. billiards.
–verb (used with object)
7. to dose with pills.
8. to form or make into pills.
9. Slang. to blackball.
–verb (used without object)
10. to form into small, pill-like balls, as the fuzz on a wool sweater.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME pille < MLG, MD pille ≪ L pilula, dim. of pila ball; see -ule

pill

2  [pil]
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
1. British Dialect. to peel.
2. Obsolete. to become or cause to become bald.
Origin:
bef. 1100; ME pilen, OE pilian to skin, peel < L pilāre to strip (said of hair). See pile 3

pill

3  [pil]
–verb (used with object) Archaic.
to rob, plunder, or pillage.
Origin:
1150–1200; ME; prob. conflation of pill 2 with MF piller (see pillage )
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pill 1   (pĭl)   
n.  

  1. A small pellet or tablet of medicine, often coated, taken by swallowing whole or by chewing.

  2. Informal An oral contraceptive. Used with the.

  3. Slang Something, such as a baseball, that resembles a pellet of medicine.

  4. Something both distasteful and necessary.

  5. Slang An insipid or ill-natured person.

v.   pilled, pil·ling, pills

v.   tr.

  1. To dose with pills.

  2. To make into pills.

  3. Slang To blackball.

v.   intr.
To form small balls resembling pills: a sweater that pills.

[Middle English pille, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German pille and Old French pile, all from Latin pilula, diminutive of pila, ball.]
pill 2   (pĭl)   
v.   pilled, pil·ling, pills

v.   intr. Chiefly British
To come off, as in flakes or scales.
v.   tr. Archaic
To subject to extortion.

[Middle English pillen, to plunder, peel, from Old English pilian; see peel1 and from Old French piller, to plunder; see pillage.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
pill

  1. n.
    the pilla birth control pill. (Always with the in this sense.) : The pill has really changed my life.
  2. n.
    a tobacco cigarette; a marijuana cigarette. : I'll trade you a pill for a match.
  3. n.
    a drug in capsule form. : The doctor prescribed these pills.
  4. n.
    a football. : Fred kicked the pill through the goal and won the game.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

pill 
1484, from M.Du. or M.L.G. pille, from L. pilula "pill," lit. "little ball," dim. of pila "ball." Slang meaning "boring person" is recorded from 1871. The pill "contraceptive pill" is from 1957. Pill-box "box for holding pills" is first attested 1730; as a small round concrete machine gun nest, it came into use in WWI. As a type of hat, attested from 1958.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: pill
Pronunciation: 'pil
Function: noun
1 : medicine in a small rounded mass to be swallowed whole
2 oftencapitalized : a birth control pill—usually used with the
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

pill (pĭl)
n.

  1. A small pellet or tablet of medicine, often coated, taken by swallowing whole or by chewing.

  2. An oral contraceptive.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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