\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.

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

\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.

\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.

\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.