pil.

abbreviation for

1. (in prescriptions) pill.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pil.¹

From the Latin word pilula

Example Sentences

Good three pil'd predication, will you peace, And hear the cause we come for?Cun.

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Pillion, pil′yun, n. a cushion for a woman behind a horseman: the cushion of a saddle.

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A remarkable blueness about the mouth and eyes, and purged considerably from the pil.

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O what o'erflowing plenty is up-pil'd In those rich-laden coffers, which below Sow'd the good seed, whose harvest now they keep.

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The green talons grasp The land, that stood erewhile the proof so long, And pil'd in bloody heap the host of France.

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