Pill (?), n. [Cf. Peel skin, or Pillion.] The peel or skin. [Obs.] “Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts.” Holland.
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Pill, v. t. [Cf. L. pilare to deprive of hair, and E. pill, n. (above).] 1. To deprive of hair; to make bald. [Obs.]
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2. To peel; to make by removing the skin.
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[Jacob] pilled white streaks . . . in the rods. Gen. xxx. 37.
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Pill (?), n. [F. pilute, L. pilula a pill, little ball, dim. of L. pila a ball. Cf. Piles.] 1. A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
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2. Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured. Udall.
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Pill beetle (Zoöl.), any small beetle of the genus Byrrhus, having a rounded body, with the head concealed beneath the thorax. -- Pill bug (Zoöl.), any terrestrial isopod of the genus Armadillo, having the habit of rolling itself into a ball when disturbed. Called also pill wood louse.
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