Definition of quill

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Quill (n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle..

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Float :: Float (v. i.) The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish..
Quillback :: Quillback (n.) An American fresh-water fish (Ictiobus, / Carpiodes, cyprinus); -- called also carp sucker, sailfish, spearfish, and skimback..
Tranquillity :: Tranquillity (n.) The quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; composure.
Sea Onion :: Sea onion () The officinal squill. See Squill.
Jack :: "Jack (n.) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper..
Culverkey :: Culverkey (n.) An English meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill (Scilla nutans)..
Quillet :: Quillet (n.) Subtilty; nicety; quibble.
Tranquilly :: Tranquilly (adv.) In a tranquil manner; calmly.
Rectrix :: Rectrix (n.) One of the quill feathers of the tail of a bird.
Quilling :: Quilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quil.
Quillwort :: Quillwort (n.) Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves..
Squill :: Squill (n.) Any bulbous plant of the genus Scilla; as, the bluebell squill (S. mutans)..
Longipennate :: Longipennate (a.) Having long wings, or quills..
Plectrum :: Plectrum (n.) A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments..
Squillitic :: Squilla (n.) Any one of numerous stomapod crustaceans of the genus Squilla and allied genera. They make burrows in mud or beneath stones on the seashore. Called also mantis shrimp. See Illust. under Stomapoda.
Squilla :: Squillae (pl. ) of Squill.
Quill :: Quill (v. t.) To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle..
Quietism :: Quietism (n.) Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.
Squillae :: Squillas (pl. ) of Squill.
Secondary :: Secondary (n.) A secondary quill.
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