These are the meanings of the letters OLBILUI when you unscramble them.
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Bill (n.)
A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
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Bill (v. i.)
To strike; to peck.
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Bill (v. i.)
To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.
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Bill (n.)
The bell, or boom, of the bittern
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Bill (n.)
A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.
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Bill (n.)
A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.
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Bill (n.)
One who wields a bill; a billman.
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Bill (n.)
A pickax, or mattock.
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Bill (n.)
The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
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Bill (v. t.)
To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
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Bill (n.)
A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
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Bill (n.)
A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document.
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Bill (n.)
A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
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Bill (n.)
A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.
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Bill (n.)
An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.
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Bill (n.)
Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.
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Bill (v. t.)
To advertise by a bill or public notice.
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Bill (v. t.)
To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.
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Boil (v.)
To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.
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Boil (v.)
To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
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Boil (v.)
To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
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Boil (v.)
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
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Boil (v.)
To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
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Boil (v. t.)
To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
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Boil (v. t.)
To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
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Boil (v. t.)
To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.
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Boil (v. t.)
To steep or soak in warm water.
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Boil (n.)
Act or state of boiling.
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Boil (n.)
A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.
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Boll (n.)
The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
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Boll (n.)
A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.
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Boll (v. i.)
To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
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Bull (n.)
The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
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Bull (n.)
One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
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Bull (n.)
Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
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Bull (n.)
A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
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Bull (n.)
One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5.
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Bull (a.)
Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
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Bull (v. i.)
To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
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Bull (v. t.)
To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.
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Bull (v. i.)
A seal. See Bulla.
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Bull (v. i.)
A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated \"a die Incarnationis,\" i. e., \"from the day of the Incarnation.\" See Apostolical brief, under Brief.
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Bull (v. i.)
A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.