Helen Fenton

Bilk: Definition and part of speech

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Bilk

  1. n. A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.
  2. v. t. To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.
  3. n. A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
  4. n. A cheat; a trick; a hoax.
  5. n. Nonsense; vain words.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bill: Definition and part of speech

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Bill

  1. n. A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
  2. v. i. To strike; to peck.
  3. v. i. To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.
  4. n. The bell, or boom, of the bittern
  5. n. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; — used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.
  6. n. A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.
  7. n. One who wields a bill; a billman.
  8. n. A pickax, or mattock.
  9. n. The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
  10. v. t. To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
  11. 1n. 1 A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
  12. 1v. i. 1 To strike; to peck.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.