(pil) noun
1. A medicinal substance put up in a pellet, convenient for swallowing whole.
2. Hence, a disagreeable necessity.
3. Slang A person difficult to bear with; a bore.
4. Colloq. A baseball or a golf ball.
—the pill or the Pill Any of various oral contraceptive drugs in tablet form, taken by women.
—v.t.
1. To form into pills.
2. To dose with pills.
3. Slang To blackball. [Prob. <MDu. pille <L pilula, dim. of pila a ball]

(pil) v.t. & v.i. Obs.
1. To pillage.
2. To peel off; scale.
3. To make or become bald. [OE pylian, prob. <L pilare make hairless, plunder; infl. by OF piller plunder and OF peler peel]