BILL Copy link • BILL 1. of a bird), rostrum. Little bill, rostellum. 2. v. rostrum conserere rostro. To bill and coo (of persons), columbatim labra conserere labris. Vid: to COO. 3. a hook, falx, falx rostrata. Battle-axe, bipennis. 4. roll, index (genitive); numeri (of soldiers): of account, index mercium emtarum, libellus rationarius, tabella rationaria: present a bill, inferre rationem. A bill of fare, index ciborum: of divorce, litterae quibus repudium remittitur: to send one, alicui nuntium or repudium remittere: of exchange, syngrapha. A bill payable at sight, syngrapha, quae praesens, or praesenti die debetur; or pecunia, quae ex syngrapha praesens, or praesenti die debetur: a bill payable at twenty-one days, syngrapha, cui dies vicesima prima apposita est, or quae in diem vicesimam primam debeter (all after Martialis, Dig., 20, 1, 13: si dies apposita legato non est, praesens debetur, Ulp., 45, 1, 4; quoties in obligationibus dies non ponitur, praesenti die pecunia debetur, Paul., 7, 1, 4; quod vel praesens vel ex die dari potest). Bill of indictment, libellus. Bills of mortality, indices mortuoruni. Proposed law, rogatio, lex. To bring in a bill, legem or rogationem ferre: to pass it, rogationem or legem accipere; legem sciscere (of the people): to carry it through, rogationem or legem perferre: to reject it, legem or rogationem antiquare.