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Definition pill

Etymology 1

From Middle English pille (also pillem), a borrowing from Middle Low German pille or Middle Dutch pille (whence Dutch pil), probably from Latin pilla, pilula.

Noun

pill (plural pills)

1. A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
2. (informal, uncountable, definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
3. (slang) A comical or entertaining person.
4. (slang) A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
5. (informal) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile by rubbing.
6. (archaic, baseball slang) A baseball.
7. (firearms, slang) A bullet (projectile).
8. (graphical user interface) A rounded rectangle indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.

Verb

pill (third-person singular simple present pills, present participle pilling, simple past and past participle pilled)

1. (intransitive, textiles) Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
2. To form into the shape of a pill.
3. To medicate with pills.

Etymology 2

From Latin pil? (“depilate”), from pilus (“hair”).

Verb

pill (third-person singular simple present pills, present participle pilling, simple past and past participle pilled)

1. (obsolete) To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.
2. To peel; to make by removing the skin.
3. To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
4. (obsolete) To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.

Noun

pill (plural pills)

1. (obsolete) The peel or skin.

Etymology 3

From Middle English *pill, *pyll, from Old English pyll (“a pool, pill”), from Proto-Germanic *pullijaz (“small pool, ditch, creek”), diminutive of Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“pool, stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *bale- (“bog, marsh”). Cognate with Old English pull (“pool, creek”), Scots poll (“slow moving stream, creek, inlet”), Icelandic pollur (“pond, pool, puddle”). More at pool.

Noun

pill (plural pills)

1. (now Britain regional) An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.

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