Pilgrim athers

noun the Pilgrim Fathers the group of English people who arrived to settle at Plymouth, Massachusetts in the US in 1620 pill /pIl/ noun

1 (C) a small solid piece of medicine, that you swallow whole: He has to take pills to control his blood pressure. | sleeping pills

2 the Pill a pill taken regularly by some women in order to prevent them having babies: on the Pill: My doctor advised me to go on the Pill.

3 sugar the pill BrE sweeten the pill AmE to do something to make an unpleasant job or situation less unpleasant for the person who has to accept it

4 AmE informal someone who annoys you, often a child: Luke can be a real pill sometimes.

—see also: a bitter pill (to swallow) bitter 1 (7), morning­after pill