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understanding, my labour may be of use: beyond the evidence it carries with it, I advise him not to follow any man's interpretation. Locke. 6. Above in excellence.

His satires are incomparably beyond Juvenal's, if to laugh and rally is to be preferred to railing and declaiming. Dryden. 7. Remote from; not within the sphere of. With equal mind what happens, let us bear; Nor joy, nor grieve, too much for things beyond Dryden's Fables. 8. To go beyond, is to deceive; to circum

vent.

our care.

She made earnest benefit of his jest, forcing him to do her such services, as were both cumbersome and costly; while he still thought he went beyond her, because his heart did not commit the idolatry. Sidney. That no man go beyond, and defraud his brother in any matter. 1 Thessalonians. BLZEL. n. s. That part of a ring in BE'ZIL. which the stone is fixed. BE'ZOAR. n. s. [from pa, against, and zahar, poison, Persick.] A stone, formerly in high esteem as an antidote, and brought from the East Indies, where it is said to be found in the dung of an animal called pazan; the stone being formed in its belly, and growing to the size of an acorn, and sometimes to that of a pigeon's egg. Its formation is now supposed to be fabulous. The name is applied to several chymical compositions, designed for antidotes; as mineral, colar, and jovial bezoars.

Floyer.

Savary. Chambers. BEZOA'R DICK. n. s. [from bezoar.] A medicine compounded with bezoar. The bezoardicks are necessary to promote sweat, and drive forth the putrified particles. BIANGULATED. adj. [from binus and BIANGULOUS. Sangulus, Lat.] Having two corners or angles. BI'AS. n. s. [biais, Fr. said to come from bihay, an old Gaulish word, signifying cross or thart.]

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Dict.

1. The weight lodged on one side of a bowl, which turns it from the straight line.

Madam, we'll play at bowls.

-Twill make me think the world is full of rubs, And that my fortune runs against the bias. Shak. 2. Any thing which turns a man tó a particular course, or gives the direction to his measures.

You have been mistook;

But nature to her bias drew in that. Shakspeare.
This is that boasted bias of thy mind,
By which, one way to dulness 't is inclin'd. Dryd.
Morality influences men's lives, and gives a
bias to all their actions.
Locke.

Wit and humour, that expose vice and folly, furnish useful diversions. Raillery, under such regulations, unbends the mind from severer contemplations, without throwing it off from its proper bias. Addison's Freeholder.

Thus nature gives us, let it check our pride, The virtue nearest to our vice ally'd; Reason the bias turns to good or ill.

3. Propension; inclination.

Pope.

As for the religion of our poet, he seems to have some, little bias towards the opinions of Wickliff,

Dryden.

To BIAS. v. a. [from the noun.] To incline to some side; to balance one way; to prejudice.

Were I in no more danger to be misled by ignorance, than I am to be biassed by interest, I Locke. might give a very perfect account.

A desire leaning to either side, biasses the judgment strangely: by indifference for every thing but truth, you will be excited to examine.

Watts. BIAS. adv. It seems to be used adverbially in the following passage, conformably to the French mettre un chose de biais, to give any thing a wrong interpretation.

Every action that hath gone before, Whereof we have record, trial did draw, Bias and thwart, not answering the aim. Shaki.

In the following passage it seems to be an adjective. Swelled, as the bowl on the biassed side. This is not used. Blow till thy bias cheek

Outswell the cholic of puft Aquilon. Shakspeare. BIB. n. s. A small piece of linen put upon the breasts of children over their clothes.

I would fain know, why it should not be as noble a task to write upon a bib and hanging sleeves, as on the bulla and prætexta. Addison. To BIB. v. n. [bibo, Lat.] To tipple; to sip; to drink frequently.

He playeth with bibbing mother Meroë, as though so named, because she would drink mere wine without water. Camden.

To appease a froward child, they gave him drink as often as he cried; so that he was constantly bibbing, and drank more in twenty-four hours than I did.

Locke.

BIBA'CIOUS. adj. [bibax, Lat.] Addicted to drinking.

Dict.

BIBA'CITY. n. s. [bibacitas, Lat.] The quality of drinking much.

BIBBER. . s. [from To bib.] A tippler; a man that drinks often. BIBLE. n. s. [from Bor, a book; called, by way of excellence, The Book.] The sacred volume in which are contained the revelations of God.

If we pass from the apostolick to the next ages of the church, the primitive christians looked on their bibles as their most important treasure. Government of the Tongue.

We must take heed how we accustom ourselves to a slight and irreverent use of the name of God, and of the phrases and expressions of the holy bible, which ought not to be applied upon every slight occasion. Tillotson.

In questions of natural religion, we should confirm and improve, or connect our reasonings by the divine assistance of the bible. Watts. BIBLIOGRAPHER. 2. s. [from Birds, and yeow, to write.] A man skilled in literary history, and in the knowledge of books; a transcriber. Dict BIBLIOTHECAL. adj. [from bibliotheca, Lat.] Belonging to a library. Dict. B'BULOUS. adj. [bibulus, Lat] That has the quality of drinking moisture; spungy.

"Strow'd bibulous above, I see the sands, The pebbly gravel next, and gutter'd rocks. Thomsen. BICA'PSULAR. adj. [bicapsularis, Lat.] Having the seed vessel divided into two parts.

BICE. n. s. The name of a colour used in painting. It is either green or blue. Take green bice, and order it as you do your blue bice; you may diaper upon it with the water of deep green. Peacham. BICIPITAL.

BICI PITOUS. adj. [biceps,bicipitis, Lat.] 1. Having two heads.

While men believe bicipitous conformation in any species, they admit a gemination of principal parts. Brown's Vulgar Erfours.

2. It is applied to one of the muscles of the

arm.

A piece of flesh it exchanged from the bicipi tal muscle of either party's arm. Brown. To BICKER. v. n. [bicre, Welsh, a contest.]

1. To skirmish; to fight without a set battle; to fight off and on.

They fell to such a bickering, that

halting, and lost his picture.

In thy face

he got a Sidney.

I see thy fury; if I longer stay, We shall begin our ancient bickerings. Shaksp. 2. To quiver; to play backward and forward.

And from about him fierce effusion rowl'd Of smoke and bickering flame, and sparkles dire. Milton, An icy gale, oft shifting o'er the pool, Breathes a blue filin, and, in its mid career, Arrests the bickering stream. Thomson. BICKERER. n. s. [from the verb.] A skirmisher.

BICKERN. n. s. [apparently corrupted. from beakiron.] An iron ending in a point.

A blacksmith's anvil is sometimes made with a pike,or bickern, or beakiron, at one end. Moxon. BICO'RNE. auj. [bicornis, Lat.] HavBICO'RNOUS. ing two horns.

We should be too critical, to question the letter Y, or bicornous element of Pythagoras; that is, the making of the horns equal. Brown. BICO'RPORAL. adj. [bicorpor, Lat.] Having two bodies.

To BID. v. a. pret. I bid, bad, bale; I have bid, or bidden. [biddan, Saxon.] 1. To desire; to ask; to call; to invite. I am bid forth to supper, Jessica; There are my keys. Shaksp. Merch. of Venice. Go ye into the highways, and, as many as you shall find, bid to the marriage. Matt.

We ought, when we are bidden to great feasts and meetings, to be prepared beforehand.

Halewill.

2. To command; to order: before things or persons.

Saint Withold footed thrice the wold,
He met the nightmare, and her nine fold,

Bid her alight, and her troth plight. Shakspeare.

He chid the sisters,

When first they put the name of king upon ine, And bade them speak to him. Statspare. Haste to the house of sleep, and bid the god Who rules the nightly visions with a nod, Prepare a dream. Dryden's Fables.

Curse on the tongue that bids this general joy. -Can they be friends of Antony, who revel When Antony's in danger? Dryd. All for Love. Thames heard the numbers as he flow'd along, And bade his willows learn the moving song.

Pope. Acquire a government over your ideas, that

they may come when they are called, and depart when they are bidden. Waits.

3. To offer; to propose; as, to bid a price.

Come, and be true.-

-Thou bidst me to my loss; for true to thee Were to prove false. Shakspeare's Cymbeline. When a man is resolute to keep his sins while he lives, and yet unwilling to relinquish all hope, he will embrace that profession which bids fairest to the reconciling those so distant interests. Decay of Piety.

As when the goddesses came down of old, With gifts their young Dardanian judge they try'd

And each bade high to win him to their side. Granville.

To give interest a share in friendship, is to sell it by inch of candle; he that bids most shall have it and when it is mercenary, there is no depending on it. Collier on Friendship. 4. To proclaim; to offer, or to make known, by some public voice.

Our bans thrice bid! and for our wedding day My kerchief bought! then press'd, then fore'd away. Gay.

5. To pronounce; to declare. You are retir'd,

As if you were a feasted one, and not The hostess of the meeting; pray you, bid These unknown friends to 's welcome. Shaksp. Divers, as we passed by them, put their arms a little abroad; which is their gesture, when they bid any welcome. Bacon.

How, Didius, shall a Roman, sore repuls'd, Greet your arrival to this distant isle? How bid you welcome to these shatter'd legions? A. Philips

6. To denounce.

Thyself and Oxford, with five thousand men, Shall cross the seas, and bid false Edward battle.. Shakspeare's Henry v1. She bid war to all that durst supply The place of those her cruelty made die. Waller.The captive cannibal, opprest with chains, Yet braves his foes, reviles, provokes, disdains; Of nature fierce, untameable, and proud, He bids defiance to the gaping crowd, And, spent at last and speechless as he lies, With fiery glances mocks their rage, and dies." Granville. 7. To pray.

If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed. John. When they desired him to tarry longer with them, he consented not, but bade them farewel. Acts.

8. To bid beads, is to distinguish each bead by a prayer. See BEAD.

By some haycock, or some shady thorn, He bids his beads both even song and morn. Dryden. BI'DALE. n. s. [from bid and ale.] An in

vitation of friends to drink at a poor man's house, and there to contribute charity. Dict

BIDDEN. part. pass. [from To bid.] 1. Invited.

There were two of our company bidden to a feast of the family." Bacon. Madam, the bidden guests are come. A: Philips. 2. Commanded.

'I is these that early taint the female soul, Instruct the eyes of young coquettes to roll, Teach infant cheeks a bidden blush toknow, And little hearts to flutter at a beau

Rope.

BIF

BIDDER. n. 3. [from To bid.] One who BIFID.
offers or proposes a price.

He looked upon several dresses which hung there, exposed to the purchase of the best bidder. Addison. BIDDING. n. s. [from bid.] Command; order.

How, say'st thou that Macduff denies his person
At our great bidding? Shakspeare's Macbeth.

At his second bidding, darkness fled,
Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

Milton.

To BIDE. v. a. [bidan, Saxon.] To
endure; to suffer: commonly to abide.
Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm!

The wary Dutch this gathering storm foresaw,
Shakspeare.
And durst not bide it on the English coast. Dryd.
To BIDE. v. n.

1. To dwell; to live; to inhabit.

All knees to thee shall bow, of them that bide In heav'n or earth, or under earth in hell. Milt. 2. To remain in a place.

Safe in a ditch he bides,

With twenty trenched gashes on his head, The least a death to nature. Shaksp. Macbeth. 3. To continue in a state.

And they also, if they bide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in.

4. It has probably all the significations of Romans. the word abide; which see: but it being grown somewhat obsolete, the examples of its various meanings are not easily found.

BIDENTAL. adj. [bidens, Lat.] Having two teeth.

Ill management of forks is not to be helped, when they are only bidental BIDING. n. s. [from bide.] Residence; Swift. habitation.

At Antwerp has my constant biding been. Rowe BIENNIAL. adj. [biennis, Lat.] Of the continuance of two years.

Then why should some be very long lived, others only annual or biennial? Ray on the Creation. BIER. n. s. [from To bear, as feretrum, in Latin, from fero.] A carriage, or frame of wood, on which the dead, are carried to the grave.

And now the prey of fowls he lies,
Nor wail'd of friends, nor laid on groaning bier.
Spenser.

They bore him barefac'd on the bier,
And on his grave rain'dmany a tear. Shakspeare.
He must not float upon his wat'ry bier
Unwept.
Griefs always green, a household still in tears,
Milton.
Sad pomps, a threshold throng'd with daily biers,
And liveries of black.
Make as if you hanged yourself, they will
Dryden's Juvenal.
convey your body out of prison in a bier.

Arbuthnot.

BIESTINGS. n. s. [byrting, Saxon.] The first milk given by a cow after calving, which is very thick.

And twice besides, her biestings never fail To store the dairy with a brimming pail. Dryd. BIFA'RIOUS. adj. [bifarius,Lat.] Twofold; what may be understood two ways, Dict. BIFEROUS. adj. [biferens, Lat.] Bearing fruit twice a year.

BIG

adj. [bifidus, Lat. a bota
BIFIDATED. J nical term.] Divided into
two; split in two; opening with a
cleft.
BIFOLD. adj. [from binus, Lat. and fold.]
Twofold; double.

If beauty have a soul, this is not she;
If souls guide vows, if vows are sanctimony,
If sanctimony be the gods delight,

If there be rule in unity itself,

This is not she: O madness of discourse! That cause sets up with and against thyself! Bifold authority. Shaksp. Troilus and Cressida. BIFORMED. adj. [biformis, Lat.] Compounded of two forms, or bodies. BIFURCATED. adj. [from binus, two, and furca, a fork, Lat.] Shooting out, by a division, into two heads.

A small white piece, bifurcated, or branching into two, and finely reticulated all over.

BIFURCATION. n. s. [from binus and furWoodward. ca, Lat.] Division into two; opening into two parts.

The first catachrestical and far derived similitude, it holds with man; that is, in a bifurcation, or division of the root into two parts.

Brown's Vulgar Errours.
BIG. adj. [This word is of uncertain or
unknown etymology. Junius derives it
from Baya; Skinner from bug, which,
1. Having comparative bulk, greater or
in Danish, signifies the belly.]
less.

A troubled ocean, to a man who sails in it, is,
I think, the biggest object that he can see in.
motion.
Spectator.

2. Great in bulk; large.

Both in addition and division, either of space or duration, when the idea under consideration becomes very big, or very small, its precise bulk becomes obscure and confused. Locke.

3. Teeming; pregnant; great with young:
with the particle avith.

A bear big with young hath seldom been seen.
Bacon.

Lately on yonder swelling bush,
Big with many a common rose,
This early bud began to blush.
4. Sometimes with of, but rarely.
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Big of this gentleman, our theme, deceas'd As he was born. Shakspeare's Cymbeline. 5. Full of something; and desirous, or about, to give it vent.

The great, th' important day,

Big with the fate of Cato and of Rome. Addison. Now big with knowledge of approaching woes, The prince of augurs, Halithreses, rose. Pope. 6. Distended; swoln; ready to burst: used often of the effects of passion, as grief, rage.

Thy heart is big; get thee apart, and weep. Shakspeare's Julius Cæsar. 7. Great in air and mien; proud; swelling; tumid; haughty; surly.

How else, said he, but with a good bold face,
And with big words, and with a stately pace?

Spenser.

To the meaner man, or unknown in the court,
seem somewhat solemn, coy, big, and dangerous
of look, talk, and answer.
Ascham.
If you had looked big, and spit at him, he 'd
have run.
Shakspeare's Winter's Tale.

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South.

Thou thyself, thus insolent in state,
Art but perhaps some country magistrate,
Whose power extends no farther than to speak
Big on the bench, and scanty weights to break.
Dryden.

To grant big Thraso valour, Phormio sense, Should indignation give, at least offence. Garth. 8. Great in spirit; lofty; brave.

What art thou? have not I

An arm as big as thine? a heart as big?

Thy words, I grant, are bigger: for I wear not My dagger in my mouth. Shakspeare's Cymb. BIGAMIST. n. s. [bigamus, low Lat.] One that has committed bigamy. BIGAMY.

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By the papal canons, a clergyman, that has a wife, cannot have an ecclesiastical benefice; much less can a bigamist have such a benefice according to that faw. Ayliffe. BIGAMY. n. s. [bigamia, low Latin.] 1. The crime of having two wives at once.

A beauty-waining and distressed widow Seduc'd the pitch and height of all his thoughts To base declension, and loath'd bigamy. Shaksp. Randal determined to commence a suit against Martin, for bigamy and incest. Arbutb. and Pope. 2. [In the canon law.] The marriage of a second wife, or of a widow, or a woman already debauched; which, in the church of Rome, were considered as bringing a man under some incapacities for ecclesiastical offices.

BIGBE'LLIED. adj. [from big and belly]
Pregnant; with child; great with

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When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive, And grow bigbellied with the wanton wind. Shak. Children and bigbellied women require antidotes somewhat more grateful to the palate.

Harvey. So many well-shaped innocent virgins are blocked up, and waddle up and down like big Addison. bellied women.

We pursued our march, to the terror of the market-people, and the miscarriage of half a Addison. dozen bigbellied women. BIGGIN, n. s. [beguin, Fr.] A child's cap.

Sleep now!

Yet not so sound, and half so deeply sweet,
As he, whose brow with homely biggin bound,
Shakspeare.
Snores out the watch of night.
BIGHT... It is explained by Skinner,
the circumference of a coil of rope.
BIGLY. adv. [from big] Tumidly;
haughtily; with a blustering manner.
Would'st thou not rather choose a small renown,
To be the may'r of some poor paltry town;
Bigly to look, and barb'rously to speak;
To pound false weights, and scanty measures
"break?
Dryden.

BIGNESS. n. s. [from big.]

1. Bulk greatness of quantity.

If panicum be laid below, and about the bot

tom of a root, it will cause the root to grow to
Bacon.
an excessive bigness.

People were surprised at the bigness and un-
couth deformity of the camel.
L'Estrange.

The brain of man, in respect of his body, is much larger than any other animal's; exceeding Ray. in bigness three oxen's brains.

2. Size, whether greater or smaller; comparative bulk.

Several sorts of rays make vibrations of several bignesses, which, according to their bignesses, excite sensations of several colours; and the air according to their bignesses, excites sensations of several sounds. Newton's Opticks.

BIGOT. n. s. [The etymology of this word is unknown; but it is supposed, by Camden and others, to take its rise from some occasional phrase] A man devoted unreasonably to a certain party, or prejudiced in favour of certain opinions; a blind zealot. It is used often with to before the object of zeal; as, a bigot to the Cartesian tenets.

Religious spite and pious spleen bred first Thisquarrel, which so long the bigots nurst. Tate.

In philosophy and religion, the bigots of all parties are generally the most positive. Watts. BIGOTED. adj. [from bigot] Blindly prepossessed in favour of something; irrationally zealous: with to.

Bigotted to this idol, we disclaim

Rest, health, and ease, for nothing but a name.
Garth.

Presbyterian merit, during the reign of that
weak, bigotted, and ill-advised prince, will ea-
Swift.
sily be computed,
BIGOTRY. n. s. [from bigot.] ·
1. Blind zeal; prejudice; unreasonable
warmth in favour of party or opinions:
with the particle to.

Were it not for a bigotry to our own tenets, we could hardly imagine, that so many absurd, wicked, and bloody principles, should pretend to support themselves by the gospel.

2. The practice or tenet of a bigot.

Watts.

Our silence makes our adversaries think we persist in those bigotries, which all good and sensible men despise. Pope. BIGSWOLN. adj. [from big and swoln.] Turgid; ready to burst.

Might my bigswoln heart
Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow.
Addison.

BIG-UDDERED. adj. [from big and udder.]
Having large udders; having dugs
'swelled with milk.

Now, driv'n before him through the arching rock,

Came, tumbling heaps on heaps, th' unnumber'd flock,

Big-udder'd ewes, and goats of female kind. Pope. BI'LANDER. n. s. [belandre, Fr.] A small vessel of about eighty tons burden, used for the carriage of goods. It is a kind of hoy, manageable by four or five men, and has masts and sails after the manner of a hoy. They are used chiefly in Holland, as being particularly fit for the canals. Savary. Trevoux! Like bilanders to creep

Along the coast, and land in view to keep. Dryd. BILBERRY. 2. s. [from bilig, Sax a bladder, and berry, according to Skin

ner; vitis idea.] A small shrub ; and a sweet berry of that shrub; whortleberry

Cricket,to Windsor's chimneys shalt thou leap; There pinch the maids as blue as bilberries.

Shakspeare. BILBO. n. s. [corrupted from Bilboa, where the best weapons are made.] A rapier; a sword.

To be compassed like a good bilbo, in the circumference of a peck, hilt to point, heel to head. Shakspeare. BILBOES. n. s. A sort of stocks, or wooden shackles for the feet, used for punishing offenders at sea.

Methought I lay

Worse than the mutinies in the bilboes. Shaksp. BILE n. s. bilis, Lat. A thick, yellow, bitter liquor, separated in the liver, collected in the gall bladder, and discharged into the lower end of the duodenum, or binning of the jejunum, by the commoitt Ita use is to sheathe

or blunt the acids of the chyle, because they, being entangled with its sulphurs, thicken it so, that it cannot be suffici ently diluted by the succus pancreaticus, to enter the lacteal vessels.

Quincy.

In its progression, soon the labour'd chyle Receives the confluent rills of bitter bile; Which, by the liver sever'd from the blood, And striving through the gall-pipe, here unload Their yellow streams. Blackmore,

BILE. n. s. [bile, Sax. perhaps from bilis, Lat. This is generally spelt boil; but I think, less properly.] A sore angry swelling.

But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my
daughter:

Or rather a disease that 's in my flesh;
Thou art a bile in my corrupted blood. Shaksh.
Those biles did run-say so did not the gener-
al run? were not that a botchy sore? Shaksp.

A furunculus is a painful tubercle, with a broad basis, arising in a cone. It is generally called a bile, and is accompanied with in 9ammation, pulsation, and tension. Wiseman.

BILGE. n, s. The compass or breadth of a ship's bottom. Skinner. To BILGE. v. n. [from the noun.] To spring a leak; to let in water, by striking upon a rock: a sea term; now bulge. Skinner. BILIARY. adj. [from bilis, Lat.] BeJonging to the bile.

Voracious animals, and such as do not chew, have a great quantity of gall; and some of them have the biliary duct inserted into the pylorus. Arbuthnot. BLINGSGATE. n. s. [A cant word, borrowed from Bilingsgate in London, a place where there is always a crowd of low people, and frequent brawls and foul language.] Ribaldry; foul language

There stript, fair Rhetorick languish'd on the ground,

And shameful Bilingsgate her robes adorn. Pope. BILINGUOUS, adj. [bilinguis, Lat.] Having, or speaking, two tongues.

BILIOUS. adj. [from bilis, Lat.] Con-" sisting of bile; partaking of bile,

Why bilious juice a golden light puts on, And floods of chyle in silver currents run. Garth.

When the taste of the mouth is bitter, it is a sign of a redundance of abilious alkali. Arbuth.

To BILK. v. a. [derived by Mr. Lye from the Gothick bilaican] To cheat; to defraud, by running in debt and avoiding payment.

Bilk'd stationers for yeomen stood prepar'd.

Dryden. What comedy, what farce can more delight, Than grinning hunger, and the pleasing sight Of your bilk'd hopes? Dryden. BILL. n. s. [bile, Sax. See BALL.] The

beak of a fowl

Their bills were thwarted crossways at the end, and with these they would cut an apple in

two at one snap.

Carew. It may be tried, whether birds may not be made to have greater or longer bills, or greater or longer talons. Bacon.

In his bill An olive leaf he brings; pacifick sign! Milton, No crowing cock does there his wings display, Nor, with his horny bill, provoke the day. Dryd BILL. n. s. [billé, Sax. epibille, a twoedged axe.]

1. A kind of hatchet with a hooked point, used in country work, as a hedging bill; so called from its resemblance in form to the beak of a bird of prey.

Standing troops are servants armed, who use the lance and sword, as other servants do the sickle or the bill, at the command of those who entertain them. Temple.

2. A kind of weapon anciently carried by the foot; a battle-axe.

Yea, distaff women manage rusty bills; Against thy seat both young and old rebel. Shaks, BILL. n. s. [billet, Fr.]

1. A written paper of any kind.
He does receive

Particular addition from the bill
That writes them all alike.

2. An account of money.

Shakspeare.

Ordinary expence ought to be limited by a man's estate, and ordered to the best, that the bills may be less than the estimation abroad..

Bacon, 3. A law presented to the parliament, not yet made an act.

No new laws can be made, nor old laws abrogated or altered, but by parliament; where bills are prepared, and presented to the two houses. Bacon,

How now for mitigation of this bill, Urg'd by the commons? doth his majesty Incline to it or no?

4. An act of parliament.

Shakspeare.

There will be no way left for me to tell you that I remember you, and that I love you, but that one, which needs no open warrant, or secret conveyance; which no bills can preclude, nor no kings prevent. Atterbury.

5. A physician's prescription.

Like him that took the doctor's bill, And swallow'd it instead o' th' pill. Hudibras. The medicine was prepared according to the L'Estrange.

bill.

Let them, but under your superiours, kill, When doctors first have sign'd the bloody bill. Dryden.

6. An advertisement,

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