| 单词 | pill |
| 释义 | pill pill1 /pil/, n. 1. a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole. 2. something unpleasant that has to be accepted or endured: Ingratitude is a bitter pill. 3. Slang. a tiresomely disagreeable person. 4. Sports Slang. a ball, esp. a baseball or golf ball. 5. the pill. See birth-control pill. 6. pills, Brit. Slang. billiards. v.t. 7. to dose with pills. 8. to form or make into pills. 9. Slang. to blackball. v.i. 10. to form into small, pill-like balls, as the fuzz on a wool sweater. [1375-1425; late ME pille < MLG, MD pille << L pilula, dim. of pila ball; see -ULE] pill2 /pil/, v.t. , v.i. 1. Brit. Dial. to peel. 2. Obs. to become or cause to become bald. [bef. 1100; ME pilen, OE pilian to skin, peel < L pilare to strip (said of hair). See PILE3] pill3 /pil/, v.t. Archaic. to rob, plunder, or pillage. [1150-1200; ME; prob. conflation of PILL2 with MF piller (see PILLAGE)] |
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