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Billing   /bˈɪlɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Bill  v. t.  To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.


Bill  v. t.  
1.
To advertise by a bill or public notice.
2.
To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.


Bill  v. i.  (past & past part. billed; pres. part. billing)  
1.
To strike; to peck. (Obs.)
2.
To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. "As pigeons bill."
To bill and coo, to interchange caresses; said of doves; also of demonstrative lovers.


adjective
Billing  adj., n.  Caressing; kissing.





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"Billing" Quotes from Famous Books



... ends they're as black as a niggers in billing time, and near the roots they're all speckled ...
— Our American Cousin • Tom Taylor
... Account of Billing's Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia, 1785-94. 4to.—An account of this expedition was also published in Russian by Captain Saretschewya, one of the officers engaged in it. Parts of the continent, and islands and seas little known, are described ...
— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson
... cross word yet. Mamma calls us her turtle-doves: says we're always billing and cooing. Ah, Elsie, how beautiful you are! I've always thought you just as lovely as possible, yet there's an added something—I can't divine what—that increases even your ...
— Elsie's Womanhood • Martha Finley
... and on the stream-bank a tree full of birds of various colours, and he stood and watched the birds without their seeing him. And behold, a black bird flew down upon that white-she bird and fell to billing her pigeon- fashion, then he leapt on her and trod her three consecutive times, after which the bird changed and became a woman. Badr looked at her and lo! it was Queen Lab. So he knew that the black bird was a man transmewed and that she was enamoured ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton
... about? Does Phillida explain her high ideals, or tell him the shabby epics of lame beggars and blind old German women in Mackerelville? Or does he explain to her how to adjust a cravat, or tell her the amusing incidents of a private ball? They can't go on always billing and cooing, and what will they talk about on rainy Sundays after they are married? I'd like to see him persuade Phillida to wear an ultra-fashionable evening dress and spend six evenings a week at entertainments ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston


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