▪ I. billed, ppl. a.1
[f. bill n.1 and n.2.]
Furnished with a bill; having a beak, spike, etc. (Usually in composition, as long-billed, broad-billed, soft-billed, etc.)
| 1399 Langl. Rich. Redeles. iii. 37 All billid breddis þat þe bough spareth. 1513 Douglas æneis xi. xiii. 20 The weill stelit and braid billit ax. 1582 D. Ingram Narr. in Arb. Garner V. 257 It is bigger than a goose, billed like a showeler. 1625 Bacon Goodness, Ess. (Arb.) 201 A longe Billed Fowle. 1770 G. White Selborne xxxvi, Hard-billed birds subsist on seeds. 1847 Carpenter Zool. §385 Dentirostres, or toothed-billed Birds, which are characterized by a notch or tooth near the extremity of the upper mandible. |
▪ II. billed, ppl. a.2
(bɪld)
[f. bill v.3]
1. Entered in a bill or list; spec. (see quot.).
| 1873 W. W. Knollys Dict. Mil. Terms, Billed, a term exclusively confined to the Foot Guards. It means that a man's name is placed in the list or bill of those who are to undergo drill and confinement to barracks. Hence a ‘billed man’. |
2. Announced or advertised by a bill. (See bill v.3 4.)
| 1895 Westm. Gaz. 18 July 8/1 The..train reached Aberdeen at 6.46..or fourteen minutes before the billed time of arrival. 1897 Daily News 22 May 5/7 The establishment of a boldly billed enclosure for lost children. |