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According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration.

One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax. "A billman of the guard." Savile.

An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.

Bullion in the bar or mass.

the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind. Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll. Cowper.

Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.

A club; esp., a policeman's club.

A male goat. [Colloq.]

A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. [Eng.]

A round, low-crowned felt hat; a wideawake. "The undignified billycocks and pantaloons of the West." B. H. Chamberlain.

Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.

Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.

The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler.

In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency.

A duck of the genus Fuligula. Two American species (F. marila and F. affinis) are common. See Scaup duck.

A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.

n large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; - - called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck.

A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak.

To tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning. To cockbill the anchor, to suspend it from the cathead preparatory to letting it go. See Acockbill.