PILL, noun [Latin 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 transitive To rob; to plunder; to pillage, that is, to peel, to strip. [See Peel, the same word in the proper English orthography.] PILL, verb intransitive To be peeled; to come off in flakes. 1. To rob. [See Peel.]
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