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・ quieter
・ quietism
・ quietist
・ quietistic
・ quietly
・ quietness
・ quietsome
・ quietude
・ quietus
・ quill
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・ quillback
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・ quillet
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Quill : 英英辞書
Quill
(), n.[Perhaps fr. F. quille ninepin (see Kayless); but cf. also G. kiel a quill. MHG. 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 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. Sir H. Wotton.
3. (Zol.) (a) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine. (b) The pen of a squid. See Pen.
4. (Mus.) (a) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments. (b) The tube of a musical instrument.
He touched the tender stops of various quills.
Milton.
5. Something having the form of a quill; as: (a) The fold or plain of a ruff. (b) (Weaving) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle. (c) (Mach.) A hollow spindle.
Quill bit, a bit for boring resembling the half of a reed split lengthways and having its end sharpened like a
Quill
v. t.[imp. & p. p.Quilled (); p. pr. & vb. n.Quilling.]
1. To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.
His cravat seemed quilled into a ruff.
Goldsmith.
2. To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn. Judd.

Quill
n.(Pharm.) A roll of dried bark; as, a quill of cinnamon or of cinchona.



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