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Webster 1913 Edition

Pill

Pill

,
Noun.
[Cf.
Peel
skin, or
Pillion
.]
The peel or skin.
[Obs.]
“Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts.”
Holland.

Pill

,
Verb.
I.
To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

Pill

,
Verb.
T.
[Cf. L.
pilare
to deprive of hair, and E.
pill
, n. (above).]
1.
To deprive of hair; to make bald.
[Obs.]
2.
To peel; to make by removing the skin.
[Jacob]
pilled
white streaks . . . in the rods.
Gen. xxx. 37.

Pill

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Pilled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Pilling
.]
[F.
piller
, L.
pilare
; cf. It.
pigliare
to take. Cf.
Peel
to plunder.]
To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See
Peel
, to plunder.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Pillers and robbers were come in to the field to
pill
and to rob.
Sir T. Malroy.

Pill

,
Noun.
[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.
2.
Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
Udall.
Pill beetle
(Zool.)
,
any small beetle of the genus
Byrrhus
, having a rounded body, with the head concealed beneath the thorax.
–
Pill bug
(Zool.)
,
any terrestrial isopod of the genus
Armadillo
, having the habit of rolling itself into a ball when disturbed. Called also
pill wood louse
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pill

PILL

,
Noun.
[L. pila, a ball; pilula, a little ball.]
1.
In pharmacy, a medicine in the form of a little ball or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
2.
Any thing nauseous.

PILL

,
Verb.
T.
To rob; to plunder; to pillage, that is, to peel, to strip. [See Peel, the same word in the proper English orthography.]

PILL

,
Verb.
I.
To be peeled; to come off in flakes.
1.
To rob. [See Peel.]

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