pillbox

A small box for holding pills. fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fall, IMG:content-1075.png:[blocks in formation] Zoology : 1. Sing .: The genus Glomeris (q. v.). 2. Pl .: The family Glomeride. So called from rolling themselves up into a pill-like ball. *pill-monger, s. A contemptuous epithet for an apothecary. pill-tile, s. A corrugated metallic slip for roll ing pills on, to divide them accurately. *pill (1), *pile, *pille, v . t . & i. [Fr. piller =to pillage, from Lat. pilo .] To pillage, to plunder, to ravage, to rob. *pill (2), v . t . & i. [Latin pilo =to strip off the hair; pilus -hair.] A. Trans.: To take the skin or rind off; to peel. B. In trans.: To be peeled; to come off in flakes; to peel off. *pill-pate, s . A shaven head; hence, a friar or monk. ( Bacon : Works , ii. 315.) pill (3), v. t. [PILL (1), 8.) *1. To make or form into pills. *2. To dose with pills. 3. To blackball; to vote against; to reject. *pill (2), *pyll, s . [Etym. doubtful.] A small creek capable of holding ve els to unload. "The term pyll is still used, and means a creek subject to the tide."- Archæologia , xxviii. 19. IMG:content-1076.png:[blocks in formation] pill-age (age as ig), v . t . & i. [PILLAGE, 8.) A. Trans.: To rob, to plunder; to take from another by open force; espec. to take from enemies; to ravage, to lay waste. B. In trans.: To plunder, to rob, to ravage; to lay waste.