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A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.

A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit. Bouvier.

A quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such a quill.

In decorative art, boiled leather, fitted by the process to receive impressed patterns, like those produced by chasing metal, and to retain the impression permanently.

According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.]

Pertaining to a decillion, or to the quotient of unity divided by a decillion.

A half-vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges. Blackstone.

An undress; a careless toilet.

and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; -- called also dill-seed. Dr. Prior.

A darling; a favorite. [Obs.] Whilst the birds billing, Each one with his dilling. Drayton.

A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve. [Written also deluing.]

A kind of stagecoach. "The Derby dilly." J. H. Frere.

To loiter or trifle; to waste time.

An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille. They breakfast in dishabille. Smollett.

The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom. Lowell.

To disenchant; to free from illusion. "The bitter disillusionizing experience of postnuptial life." W. Black.

The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle. Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain. Pope.

Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.

The product of distillation; as, the distillate from molasses.