Quill vs. Rounded
Quillnoun
The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
Roundedverb
simple past tense and past participle of round
Quillnoun
A pen made from a feather.
Roundedadjective
Made into a circle or sphere.
Quillnoun
(figuratively) Any pen.
‘He picked up his quill and wrote a poem.’;
Roundedadjective
Complete or balanced.
Quillnoun
A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
Roundedadjective
(mathematics) Describing a number that has been changed to its nearest desired value.
Quillnoun
A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
Roundedadjective
(botany) Ending in a broad arch.
Quillnoun
The pen of a squid.
Roundedadjective
Pronounced with the lips drawn together.
Quillnoun
(music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
Roundedadjective
Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, 11.
Quillnoun
(music) The tube of a musical instrument.
Roundedadjective
curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged;
‘low rounded hills’; ‘rounded shoulders’;
Quillnoun
Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
Roundedadjective
a chubby body;
‘the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks’;
Quillverb
To pierce or be pierced with quills.
Quillverb
(figuratively) To write.
Quillverb
To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
Quillverb
To decorate with quillwork.
Quillverb
To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
Quillnoun
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.
Quillnoun
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.
Quillnoun
A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
Quillnoun
The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
‘He touched the tender stops of various quills.’;
Quillnoun
Something having the form of a quill
Quillnoun
A roll of dried bark; as, a quill of cinnamon or of cinchona.
Quillverb
To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.
‘His cravat seemed quilled into a ruff.’;
Quillverb
To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.
Quillnoun
pen made from a bird's feather
Quillnoun
a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
Quillnoun
any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
Quillnoun
the hollow shaft of a feather
Quill
A quill is a writing tool 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.
