QUILL

noun a hollow spindle.

2. quill ·noun the fold or plain of a ruff.

3. quill ·noun the tube of a musical instrument.

4. quill ·noun something having the form of a quill.

5. quill ·noun a spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.

6. quill ·vt to wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.

7. quill ·noun the pen of a squid. ·see pen.

8. quill ·noun the plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.

9. quill ·add. ·noun a roll of dried bark; as, a quill of cinnamon or of cinchona.

10. quill ·vt to plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.

11. quill ·noun a spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.

12. quill ·noun one of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.

13. quill ·noun a pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill.