Quill

·noun A hollow spindle.

II. Quill ·noun The fold or plain of a ruff.

III. Quill ·noun The tube of a musical instrument.

IV. Quill ·noun Something having the form of a quill.

V. Quill ·noun A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.

VI. Quill ·vt To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.

VII. Quill ·noun The pen of a squid. ·see Pen.

VIII. Quill ·noun The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.

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

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

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

XII. 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.

XIII. 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.