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  1. Quill
    [surname] Quill or Quille is an anglicised version of the Irish surname Coll, Coill, and O`Coill (Ó Coill), all of which mean wood, forest or shrub. The Coill clan are believed to be a bardic family from Munster, particularly Kerry and Cork. The Irish surname has also been Anglicised as Woo...
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  2. Quill
    [comics] Quill has been the name of four different fictional comic book characters in the Marvel Comics universe. All, however, are human mutants. ==Quill (Warpie)== The Warpie known as Quill first appeared in Captain Britain, vol. 2 #7 and was created by Jamie Delano and Alan Davis. ===Fict...
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  3. Quill
    [band] Quill was a popular Northeast USA band that played extensively throughout New England and New York in the late 1960s and that gained national attention by performing at the original Woodstock Festival in 1969. The band was originally founded by two singer/songwriters and brothers from...
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  4. Quill
    [disambiguation] Quill may also refer to: ==People== ==Computer software== ==Music== ==Films== ...
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  5. Quill
    [film] Quill is directed by Yoichi Sai and adapted from the original novel Mōdōken Kuīru no Isshō by Ryohei Akimoto and Kengo Ishiguro, based on a true story. Prior to the release of this film, NHK produced a TV drama adaptation of the novel, which aired from June 16 to July 28, 2003. ==...
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  6. quill
    A small BOBBIN or SPOOL, usually made of paper, around which FILLING YARN is wound.
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  7. quill
    [n] - pen made from a bird`s feather 2. [n] - the hollow shaft of a feather 3. [n] - a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
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  8. Quill
    Quill noun [ Perhaps from French quille ninepin (see Kayless ); but confer also German kiel a quill. Middle High German kil , and Ir. cuille a quill.] 1. One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of t...
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  9. Quill
    Quill transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Quilled ; present participle & verbal noun Quilling .] 1. To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to qui...
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  10. Quill
    Quill noun (Pharm.) A roll of dried bark; as, a quill of cinnamon or of cinchona.
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  11. quill
    1. 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. ... 2. 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. ... 3. <zoology> A spine ...
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  12. quill
    quill pen noun pen made from a bird`s feather
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  1. quill
    noun the hollow spine of a feather
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  2. Quill
    • (n.) A roll of dried bark; as, a quill of cinnamon or of cinchona. • (n.) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine. • (n.) The fold or plain of a ruff. • (n.) The pen of a squid. See Pen. • (n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wou...
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  3. quill
    (from the article `hair`) ...among the members of a species. Specialized hairs called vibrissae, or whiskers, serve as sensory organs for certain nocturnal animals. The ... ...cells. In the peccary the cortical envelope sends radial projections inward, the spaces between being occupied by medullary ...
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  4. quill
    hollow, horny barrel of a bird`s feather, used as the principal writing instrument from the 6th century until the mid-19th century, when steel pen ... [1 related articles]
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  5. Quill
    A quill pen is a writing implement made from a moulted flight feather (preferably a primary wing-feather) of a large bird. Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen, the metal-nibbed pen, the fountain pen, and, eventually, the ballpoint pen. The hand-cut goose quill ...
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  6. quill
    1. pen made from a bird's feather
    2. a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
    3. any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
    4. the hollow shaft of a feather

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  7. Quill
    A paper or cardboard tube on which weft threads are wound for use in a boat shuttle.
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  8. quill
    quill: see pen.
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  9. Quill
    Quill is American slang for a match-book cover folded to hold cocaine, heroin, Methedrine etc for sniffing.
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  10. Quill
    Quill is American slang for a match-book cover folded to hold cocaine, heroin, Methedrine etc for sniffing.
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  11. Quill
    Quills are the large wing-feathers of birds. They were long used for making pens, the quills of swans being the best but the quills of geese most commonly used while Crow-quills were used to make fine writing instruments. Quills are still used to make sign writers' brushes, as the flexible quill has...
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  12. QUILL
    The Quintiq Logic Language (Quill) is a high level object oriented programming language created by the Dutch software company Quintiq. This language is used in Quintiq applications to create logic for specific business cases to define the behavior of the model. The language is loosely based on a mi...
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  13. Quill
    [horse] Quill (foaled 1956 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was the 1958 Champion Two-Year-Old Filly in the United States. ...
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