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To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. "As pigeons bill." Shak. To bill and coo, to interchange caresses; -- said of doves; also of demonstrative lovers. Thackeray.

A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives.

One who negotiates the discount of bills.

A person who holds a bill or acceptance.

In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

and v. t. & i. Same as Bilge.

An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish. [Written also billet and billit.]

A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.

plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on. Totten.

Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed.

A small paper; a note; a short letter. "I got your melancholy billet." Sterne.

A love letter or note. A lover chanting out a billet-doux. Spectator.

A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.

A name applied to several distinct fishes: (a) The garfish (Tylosurus, or Belone, longirostris) and allied species. (b) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus). (c) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. (d) The American fresh-water garpike…

A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts.

t, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.

Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. "Smooth as is a billiard ball." B. Jonson.

A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

Caressing; kissing.

A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.