1) Barb 2) Calamus 3) Calligraphy tool 4) Early pen 5) English surname 6) Feather for writers 7) Feather pen 8) Feather used as a pen 9) Feathery pen 10) Inkwell item 11) John Hancock implement 12) Old pen 13) Old-fashioned pen 14) Old-time pen 15) Part of an oldtime desk set 16) Plume 17) Porcupine feature
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1) Feather 2) Hair 3) Pen 4) Spine
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- pen made from a bird's feather
- a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
- any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
- the hollow shaft of a feather
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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 mixture of C++ and Pascal. ...
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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 is rarely used as a calligraphy tool, because many...
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[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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[satellite] Quill was an experimental United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) programme of the 1960s, which orbited the first synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to produce images of the Earth`s surface from space. Radar-imaging spacecraft of this design were not intended to be deployed operationally, since it was known that this syst...
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• (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 wound in a shuttle. • (v. t.) To plaint in small...
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(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 substance; and this, ... [2 related...
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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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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 of the hedgehog or porcupine. The pen of a squid. ...
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A paper or cardboard tube on which weft threads are wound for use in a boat shuttle.
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A hollow, sharp spine, made of modified hair, found on the backs of animals such as porcupines, hedgehogs, and echidnas. The hollow shaft of a feather, or a type of feather.
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A small BOBBIN or SPOOL, usually made of paper, around which FILLING YARN is wound.
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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 the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such ...
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Quill transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Quilled ;
present participle & verbal noun Quilling .]
1. To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to
quill a ruffle. « His cravat seemed
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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 less tendency to cut the delicate sable hairs tha...
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Quill is American slang for a match-book cover folded to hold cocaine, heroin, Methedrine etc for sniffing.
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Pointed instrument - a porcupine quill, a thin piece of bamboo, a knitting needle, whatever - used in throwing.
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Feather.
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American slang for a match-book cover folded to hold cocaine, heroin, methedrine etc for sniffing.
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noun the hollow spine of a feather
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quill pen noun pen made from a bird`s feather
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section of a primary or secondary feather used in fly tying.
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the hollow spine of a feather
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