bill

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An itemized list or statement of fees or charges.
• noun A statement or list of particulars, such as a theater program or menu.
• noun The entertainment offered by a theater.
• noun A public notice, such as an advertising poster.
• noun A piece of legal paper money.
• noun Slang One hundred dollars.
• noun A bill of exchange.
• noun Obsolete A promissory note.
• noun A draft of a proposed law presented for approval to a legislative body.
• noun The law enacted from such a draft.
• noun A document containing the formal statement of a case in equity; a complaint seeking equitable relief.
• noun An indictment or charge in an indictment against an accused person.
• transitive verb To present a statement of costs or charges to.
• transitive verb To enter on a statement of costs or on a particularized list.
• transitive verb To advertise or schedule by public notice or as part of a program.
• transitive verb To declare or describe officially; proclaim.
• noun A structure projecting from the head of a bird, consisting of the jaws and their horny covering and including the upper and lower mandibles; a beak.
• noun A similar horny mouth part, such as that of a turtle.
• noun The visor of a cap.
• noun Nautical The tip of the fluke of an anchor.
• intransitive verb To touch beaks together.
• idiom (bill and coo) To kiss or caress and murmur endearments.
• noun A billhook.
• noun A halberd or similar weapon with a hooked blade and a long handle.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The beak or neb of a bird.
• noun The beak, snout, rostrum, or jaws of sundry other animals, as turtles, cephalopods, many fishes, etc.
• noun In the earliest use, a kind of broadsword.
• noun An obsolete military weapon, consisting of a broad hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the summit, fixed to a long handle.
• noun A cutting instrument with a blade hook-shaped toward the point, or having a concave cutting edge, used by plumbers, basket-makers, gardeners, and others.
• noun A pickax; a mattock.
• noun Nautical: The point or extremity of the fluke of an anchor.
• noun The end of compass- or knee-timber.
• noun A bellow or roar: applied to the boom of the bittern.
• noun A writing of any kind, as a will, a medical prescription, etc.; a billet.
• noun A written petition; a prayer.
• noun In law, a name given to several papers in lawsuits; particularly, when used alone, to the bill in equity or bill of indictment (see below).
• noun In com., a written statement of the names, quantities, and prices of articles sold by one person to another, with the date of sale, or a statement of work done, with the amount charged; an account of money claimed for goods supplied or services rendered.
• noun An acknowledgment of debt; a promissory note: now obsolete except as sometimes used, especially in the United States, for bank-note. See 10.
• noun A bill of exchange (which see, below).
• noun Any written paper containing a statement of particulars: as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a bill of fare or provisions, etc.
• noun A form or draft of a proposed statute presented to a legislature, but not yet enacted or passed and made law.
• noun A paper written or printed, and intended to give public notice of something, especially by being exhibited in some public place; an advertisement posted; a placard.
• noun A banknote: usually with its amount: as, a five-dollar bill.
• noun Paper issued by the authority and on the faith of a State to be circulated as money. The Constitution of the United States (Art. I. § 10) provides that no State shall emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.
• noun the sum to be paid;