pill

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A small pellet or tablet of medicine, often coated, taken by swallowing whole or by chewing.
2. n. Informal An oral contraceptive. Used with the.
3. n. Slang Something, such as a baseball, that resembles a pellet of medicine.
4. n. Something both distasteful and necessary.
5. n. Slang An insipid or ill-natured person.
6. v. To dose with pills.
7. v. To make into pills.
8. v. Slang To blackball.
9. v. To form small balls resembling pills: a sweater that pills.
10. v. Chiefly British To come off, as in flakes or scales.
11. v. Archaic To subject to extortion.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To rob; plunder; pillage.
2. To rob; practise robbery; plunder.
3. To deprive of hair; make bald. Compare pilled.
4. To peel; strip; form by stripping off the skin or bark.
5. To peel; come off in flakes.
6. n. Peel; skin; rind; outer covering.
7. n. The refuse of a hawk's prey.
8. n. A globular or ovoid mass of medicinal substance, of a size convenient for swallowing.
9. n. Hence Something unpleasant that has to be accepted or (metaphorically) swallowed: usually qualified by bitter.
10. n. A disagreeable or objectionable person.
11. n. plural A doctor or surgeon.
12. n. In varnish-making, the cooked mass of linseed-oil and gum before turpentine is added to thin it down and complete the varnish.
13. To form into pills.
14. To dose with pills.
15. To reject by vote; blackball.
16. n. A small creek; one of the channels through which the drainings of a marsh enter a river.

Wiktionary

1. v. obsolete To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.
2. v. obsolete To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.
3. n. An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.
4. n. A small, usually cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
5. n. informal Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of pill.
6. n. slang A comical or entertaining person.
7. n. slang A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
8. n. informal A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile by rubbing.
9. n. archaic A baseball.
10. n. firearms (informal) a bullet (projectile)
11. v. intransitive, textiles Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
12. v. To form into the shape of a pill.
13. v. To medicate with pills.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete The peel or skin.
2. v. To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
3. v. obsolete To deprive of hair; to make bald.
4. v. To peel; to make by removing the skin.
5. v. obsolete To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See peel, to plunder.
6. n. A medicine in the form of little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
7. n. Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size
2. n. something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured
3. n. a contraceptive in the form of pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception
4. n. a unpleasant or tiresome person
5. n. a dose of medicine in the form of small pellet