Pill \Pill\, n. [Cf. Peel skin, or Pillion.]

The peel or skin. [Obs.]

``Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts.'' --Holland.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Pill \Pill\, v. i. To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Pill \Pill\, v. t. [Cf. L. pilare to deprive of hair, and E. pill, n. (above).]

1. To deprive of hair; to make bald. [Obs.]

2. To peel; to make by removing the skin.

[Jacob] pilled white streaks . . . in the rods. --Gen. xxx. 37.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Pill \Pill\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Pilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Pilling.]

[F. piller, L. pilare; cf. It. pigliare to take. Cf. Peel to plunder.]

To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder. [Obs.]

--Spenser.

Pillers and robbers were come in to the field to pill and to rob. --Sir T. Malroy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Pill \Pill\, n. [F. pilute, L. pilula a pill, little ball, dim. of L. pila a ball. Cf. Piles.]

1. A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.

2. Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)