n. - 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.
n. - 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.
n. - A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
n. - The pen of a squid. See Pen.
n. - The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
n. - The tube of a musical instrument.
n. - Something having the form of a quill
n. - The fold or plain of a ruff.
n. - A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
n. - A hollow spindle.
v. t. - To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.
v. t. - To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.
n. - A roll of dried bark; as, a quill of cinnamon or of cinchona.