| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Bills of mortality | Law | BILLS OF MORTALITY. Accounts of births and deaths which have occurred in a certain district, during a definite space of time. (references) | |
| Bills of mortality | Literature | 1: Within the Bills of Mortality = within the district. 2: Took their rise in 1592, when a great pestilence broke out, which continued till 1595. The term is now used for those abstracts from parish registers which show the births, deaths, and baptisms of the district. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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