[pil] 
| 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. |
| 7. | to dose with pills. |
| 8. | to form or make into pills. |
| 9. | Slang. to blackball. |
| 10. | to form into small, pill-like balls, as the fuzz on a wool sweater. |
[pil] | 1. | British Dialect. to peel. |
| 2. | Obsolete. to become or cause to become bald. |
| pill 1 (pĭl) n.
v. tr.
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.] |
pill
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pill (pĭl)
n.
A small pellet or tablet of medicine, often coated, taken by swallowing whole or by chewing.
An oral contraceptive.
