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pill
pill: n.
1 a solid medicine formed into a ball or a flat disc for swallowing whole. b (usu. prec. by the) colloq. a contraceptive pill.
2 an unpleasant or painful necessity; a humiliation (a bitter pill; must swallow the pill).
3 colloq. or joc. a ball, e.g. a football, a cannon-ball. øsugar (or sweeten) the pill make an unpleasant necessity acceptable. [MDu., MLG pille prob. f. L pilula dimin. of pila ball]
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