Quill

n.	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.	(Zool.) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
	4.	(Mus.) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments. He touched the tender stops of various quills. - Milton.
	5.	(Weaving) Something having the form of a quill
	6.	(Pharm.) A roll of dried bark; as, a quill of cinnamon or of cinchona. Quill bit a bit for boring resembling the half of a reed split lengthways and having its end sharpened like a gouge. Quill driver one who works with a pen; a writer; a clerk. Quill nib a small quill pen made to be used with a holder. - Simmonds.
v. t.	1.	To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle. [imp. & p. p. Quilled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Quilling.] His cravat seemed quilled into a ruff. - Goldsmith.
	2.	To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.

Noun	1.	quill - pen made from a bird's feather Synonyms: quill pen
	2.	quill - a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
	3.	quill - any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird Synonyms: flight feather, quill feather, pinion
	4.	quill - the hollow shaft of a feather Synonyms: calamus, shaft

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