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pill

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pill 1  (pl)
n.
1. A small pellet or tablet of medicine, often coated, taken by swallowing whole or by chewing.
2. Informal An oral contraceptive. Used with the.
3. Slang Something, such as a baseball, that resembles a pellet of medicine.
4. Something both distasteful and necessary.
5. Slang An insipid or ill-natured person.
v. pilled, pil·ling, pills
v.tr.
1. To dose with pills.
2. To make into pills.
3. Slang To blackball.
v.intr.
To form small balls resembling pills: a sweater that pills.

[Middle English pille, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German pille and Old French pile, all from Latin pilula, diminutive of pila, ball.]

pill 2  (pl)
v. pilled, pil·ling, pills
v.intr. Chiefly British
To come off, as in flakes or scales.
v.tr. Archaic
To subject to extortion.

[Middle English pillen, to plunder, peel, from Old English pilian; see peel1 and from Old French piller, to plunder; see pillage.]

pill
Noun
1. a small mass of medicine intended to be swallowed whole
2. the pill Informal an oral contraceptive taken by a woman
3. something unpleasant that must be endured: her reinstatement was a bitter pill to swallow, the pill was sweetened by a reduction in interest [Latin pilula a little ball]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.pillpill - something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size
thing - an artifact; "how does this thing work?"
vitamin pill - a pill containing one or more vitamins; taken as a dietary supplement
2.pill - a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
bolus - a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine
capsule - a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside
dose, dosage - a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
dragee - pill that is a sugar-coated medicated candy
sleeping capsule, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, sleeping tablet - a soporific drug in the form of a pill (or tablet or capsule)
3.pill - a unpleasant or tiresome person
disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
4.pill - something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured; "his competitor's success was a bitter pill to take"
burden, encumbrance, onus, incumbrance, load - an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind"
5.pillpill - a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception
Demulen - trade name for an oral contraceptive
Enovid - trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and norethynodrel
Loestrin - trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norethindrone
Lo/Ovral - trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel
Micronor - trade name for and oral contraceptive containing the progestin compound norethindrone
Modicon - trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norethindrone
Norinyl - trade name for an oral contraceptive containing norethindrone and mestranol
Norlestrin - trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norethindrone
Nor-Q-D - trade name for an oral contraceptive containing norethindrone
Ovocon - trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norethindrone
Ovral - trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel
Ovrette - trade name for an oral contraceptive containing norgestrel
Ovulen - trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and a progestin compound
Lipo-Lutin, progesterone - a steroid hormone (trade name Lipo-Lutin) produced in the ovary; prepares and maintains the uterus for pregnancy

pill
noun tablet, capsule, pellet, bolus, pilule a bitter pill (to swallow) trial, pain (informal) bore, drag (informal) pest, nuisance, pain in the neck (informal)
Translations
pill [pɪl] npíldora;
the pill → la píldora;
to be on the pill → tomar la píldora (anticonceptiva)

pill [pɪl] npilule f;
the pill → la pilule;
to be on the pill → prendre la pilule

pill [pɪl] nTablette f, Pille f;
the pill (= contraceptive) → die Pille;
to be on the pill → die Pille nehmen

pill [pɪl] npillola;
to be on the pill → prendere la pillola

pill
n pill [pil]
a small ball or tablet of medicine, to be swallowed She took a pill; sleeping-pills. pil قُرْص، حَبَّة دَواء хап pilulka pille; -pille; tablet; -tablet die Pille χάπι píldora, pastilla pill قرص pilleri pilule גְלולָה गोली pilula pirula pil (lyfja)pilla pillola 錠剤 환약, 알약 piliulė tablete; zāļu dražeja pil pil pille pastylka pílula pilulă пилюля, таблетка pilulka pilula pilula piller ยาเม็ด hap 藥丸 пігулка دوا کي گولي viên thuốc


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To this day pills are made behind its tall prcscription desk--pills rolled out on its own pill-tile, divided with a spatula, rolled with the finger and thumb, dusted with calcined magnesia and delivered in little round pasteboard pill-boxes.
I have known one clump on the head have more effect upon my liver, and make me feel more anxious to go straight away then and there, and do what was wanted to be done, without further loss of time, than a whole box of pills does now.
The magnificent present was the coating of a pill, a bitter pill.
 
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