quill¹ /kwil/

1. The hollow basal part of a feather
2. A large feather
3. A porcupine's spine
4. A goose or other feather used as a pen
5. A pen generally, or by metonymy, the writer's profession
6. Something made from a quill feather, such as a toothpick, an angler's float or a plectrum
7. A weaver's bobbin (orig made of reed or other material)
8. A hollow non-rotating shaft (also quill drive; engineering)
9. A reed, hollow stalk or internode, etc (obsolete)
10. A small tube (obsolete)
11. A musical pipe made from a hollow stem
12. Hence throat, or perh voice (Shakespeare)
13. A roll of curled bark, eg of cinnamon
14. A cylindrical fold (obsolete)

1. To goffer, crimp
2. To wind on a bobbin

quilled adjective

1. Provided with, or formed into quills
2. Tubular

quillˈing noun

1. A strip of cloth gathered into cylindrical folds
2. Decorative work characterized by longitudinal pleats or grooves

quillˈ-driver noun (derogatory)

1. A clerk (now milit sl)
2. An assiduous writer

quillˈ-driving noun

quillˈ-feather noun

A large stiff wing or tail feather

quillˈman noun (obsolete)

A clerk

quillˈ-nib noun

A quill-pen shortened for use with a holder

quillˈ-pen noun

A quill used as a pen

adjective

Using or suggestive of old-fashioned, slow and protracted methods or style (in office or literary work)

quillˈwort noun

Any plant of the genus Isoetes (from the quill-like leaves)

quill² /kwil/ (Shakespeare)

A combination (in the phrase in the quill in a body, in concert)

• glozes
• glozing
• glozings
• glucagon
• glucagons
• glucina
• glucinas
• glucinium
• gluciniums
• glucinum
• glucinums
• glucocorticoid
• glucocorticoids
• gluconeogeneses
• gluconeogenesis
• gluconeogenic
• glucoprotein
• glucoproteins
• glucosamine
• glucosamines
• glucose
• glucoses
• glucosic
• glucoside
• glucosides