pill

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

• noun A small pellet or tablet of medicine, often coated, taken by swallowing whole or by chewing.
• noun Informal An oral contraceptive. Used with the.
• noun Slang Something, such as a baseball, that resembles a pellet of medicine.
• noun Something both distasteful and necessary.
• noun Slang An insipid or ill-natured person.
• intransitive verb To dose with pills.
• intransitive verb To make into pills.
• intransitive verb Slang To blackball.
• intransitive verb To form small balls resembling pills.
• intransitive verb To come off, as in flakes or scales.
• intransitive verb To subject to extortion.

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
• transitive verb obsolete To deprive of hair; to make bald.
• transitive verb To peel; to make by removing the skin.
• noun obsolete The peel or skin.
• noun A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
• noun Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
• noun (Zoöl.) any small beetle of the genus Byrrhus, having a rounded body, with the head concealed beneath the thorax.
• noun (Zoöl.) any terrestrial isopod of the genus Armadillo, having the habit of rolling itself into a ball when disturbed. Called also pill wood louse.
• verb obsolete To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See peel, to plunder.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size