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To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.

untant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk. The clerk of the crown . . . withdrew the bill. Strype.

The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.

ches. -- Commercial paper, negotiable paper given in due course of business. It includes bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank cheks, etc. -- Commercial traveler, an agent of a wholesale house who travels from town to town to solicit orders.

ound. [An obsolete Latinism.] Committing short and long [quantities]. Milton. To commit a bill (Legislation), to refer or intrust it to a committee or others, to be considered and reported. -- To commit to memory, or To commit, to learn by heart; to memorize.

usting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.

itted (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity.

A composition for billiard balls.

A tribe of perching birds, including those which have a strong conical bill, as the finches.

To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to cosign a cargo or a ship; to set apart.

express generally the shipper of merchandise, and the person to whom it is addressed, by bill of lading or otherwise. De Colange.

An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmate vote; also, a member who votes "Content.". Supposing the number of "Contents" and "Not contents" strictly equal in number and consequence.Burke.

To show affection; to act in a loving way. See under Bill, v. i. "Billing or cooing." Byron.

ect; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties. Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali. Arbuthnot.

ng bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck.

A has several credits on the books of B. Bank credit, or Cash credit. See under Cash. -- Bill of credit. See under Bill. -- Letter of credit, a letter or notification addressed by a banker to his correspondent, informing him that the person named therein is entitled to draw a certain sum of money; when addressed to s…

th each other. -- Cross bedding (Geol.), oblique lamination of horizontal beds, -- Cross bill. See in the Vocabulary. -- Cross bitt. Same as Crosspiece. -- Cross bond, a form of bricklaying, in which the joints of one stretcher course come midway between those of the stretcher courses above and below, a course of he…

Same as Crossbill.

A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.

The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.