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bill(2) (iou) and Spotted (medicine)


bill(2) (iou)



bill noun2.
[Old English bile, of unkn. origin.]
A bird's beak, esp. when slender, flattened, or weak, and in pigeons and web-footed birds. OE.
b. The muzzle of a platypus. M19.
A beaklike projection; spec. a narrow promontory, as in Portland Bill. LME.
Nautical. The point of an anchor-fluke. M18.
Comb.: billfish (a) any of various large marine game-fishes of the family Istiophoridae, with long spearlike upper jaws, comprising the sailfish, marlins, and spearfishes; (b) = GARFISH; (c) = SAURY.
billed adjective having a bill (usu. as 2nd elem. of combs., as
broad-billed,
soft-billed, etc.) LME.

Spotted (medicine)


spotted


Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther.

<medicine> " Spotted fever, a name applied to various eruptive fevers, especially. To typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis.

<botany> Spotted tree, an Australian tree (Flindersia maculosa); so called because its bark falls off in spots.

Source: Websters Dictionary