LekhoriLekhoriA small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
Take two pills every hour in the apyrexia of intermittent fever, until eight are taken.
The peel or skin.
Some be covered with crusts or hard pills, as the locust
An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay. Pill can occur in the name of such an inlet.
Portishead, lying west-north-west of Bristol, on the Severn, had a small port from medieval times on its pill, or inlet, and began to develop as a seaside resort early in the nineteenth century, when it was served by steam packets from Bristol.
Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
During processing, inferior short fibers (which can cause pilling and itching) are removed to enhance the natural softness of the yarn and to improve its wash-and-wear performance.
To form into the shape of a pill.
A village in Pill and Easton-in-Gordano parish, North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST5275).
A municipality of Tyrol, Austria.
A surname.
* From Middle English pille (also pillem), a borrowing from Middle Low German pille or Middle Dutch pille (whence Dutch pil), probably from Latin pila, pilula. * (persuade or convince): Generalized fr...
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Pilling is a skill rarely used by modern pharmacists.
To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.