(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(2) She also won four Logies for Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, the Melbourne Press Club Gold Quill in 2013, the George Munster award and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award – for stories on people smuggling and the culture of rugby league.
(3) Righteous indignation was tweeted and retweeted, celebrities piled on the pressure, pundits sharpened their quills.
(4) Sri Lanka is the main provider of cinnamon, mainly exported as "cinnamon quills."
(5) In the movie, Peter Quill forms an uneasy alliance with a group of misfits who are on the run after stealing a coveted orb.
(6) Penney, P. Keng, H. Quill, A. Paxhia, S. Derdak, and M. E. Felch.
(7) Even when it summons up the courage to state the bleeding obvious, such as the fact that the Quill, a risible block of student housing next to the Shard, is poorly designed, Cabe is ignored.
(8) Thanks to Quill,” he says, “in a few years’ time no one will have to waste time deciphering an Excel worksheet or interpreting graphs with x and y axes ... Quill and its successors will hoover up indigestible data and transform them into clear, simple text which will enable everyone to get the message, quite naturally, through language.” Hammond was in the limelight recently, having claimed that by 2025 90% of the news read by the general public would be generated by computers.
(9) The Quill Location: Southwark | Floors: 31 | Height: 109m | Architect: SPARRC | Status: approved | Use: student accommodation The Quill What would a building look like if it had a fight with a gigantic porcupine, and the porcupine won?
(10) Images of proposed future projects, such as the Quill in Bermondsey and 1 Merchant Square in Paddington , suggest little improvement in the future.
(11) The journalists who never sleep Read more The company’s key product is Quill, a natural-language generation platform.
(12) He is convinced that this is the start of a big adventure for Quill.
(13) Quill starts by importing data (tables, lists, graphs) structured by other software.
(14) You can get some idea by looking at plans for the Quill, a great silver cliff-face of a thing that will sport a broken assortment of spines on its top.
(15) He sees the stories generated by Narrative Science’s programme, Quill, as a way of augmenting and personalising news, of making it relevant to individual needs.
(16) Methods used to produce wounds included insertion of porcupine quills, application of constrictive rubber bands, mascara injections and excoriation of healing wounds.
(17) Now, thanks to Quill, it does it for more than 5,000 corporations,” Hammond reveals.
(18) So perhaps this is as good a moment as any to take my leave, and it doesn't make me feel any younger to find myself described in one gossip column as a "scribe" who is laying down his "quill".
(19) Director Queen’s University Ionic Liquid Laboratories (QUILL), Queen’s University Belfast.
(20) At every point there has to be – here’s why I said this.” Like many human journalists, Quill began life by writing ad-hoc film reviews.
Quilt
Definition:
(n.) Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two cloths and stitching them together; also, any outer bed cover.
(v. t.) To stitch or sew together at frequent intervals, in order to confine in place the several layers of cloth and wadding of which a garment, comforter, etc., may be made; as, to quilt a coat.
(v. t.) To wad, as a garment, with warm soft material.
(v. t.) To stitch or sew in lines or patterns.
Example Sentences:
(1) Southampton are in their not-particularly-popular all-red number, while Liverpool sport their not-particularly-popular purple-white-and-black quilted shirt.
(2) The territories of the motoneurones are arranged in a quilt-like pattern closely resembling that already found for the receptive fields of sensory cells on the skin.
(3) Here we describe a variation of Gerlach's quilting technique to overcome the problem and this modification has proven to be both simple and effective.
(4) In the first six cases, split-thickness skin was quilted onto the muscle.
(5) 18 secondary perforations were seen with the quilt-plasties.
(6) In most cases, asthma occurred in winter, due to seasonal use of bed quilts or clothes filled with silk.
(7) ITN has called for a single contract to cover all of England rather than a "patchwork quilt" of regions.
(8) The influence of structure (pressed sheets or loosely quilted materials) and exposition (single, piled or between sheets of plaster) was represented.
(9) My colleague Tim Adams, who was writing an article on better potential candidates for the London mayoralty, stood beside me, as we watched the quilted, coiffed godfather of punk, and gawped.
(10) I remember getting my first quilt with my own quilt cover and just walking around this children’s home wrapped up in it.
(11) It was Caitlin Moran who said that feminism should be a “massive patchwork quilt”; we should all fight the battles that are important to us, and bring our individual ideas and strengths to the movement.
(12) But this is a very big country and cannot be run by a very much smaller civil service in London and a huge, disparate patchwork quilt of local authorities all pulling in different directions," he says.
(13) Since the use of silk waste for the filling of bed quilts a great number of patients suffering especially from silk-asthma could be observed.
(14) Blanket, or quilt, insulation is easy to lay yourself and available at DIY stores – try B&Q 's sustainable rockwool, from £5 a roll – in stores on 21 October.
(15) At this year's Frieze, the quilted, chained shoulderbag was the style of choice in an environment where designer accessories come as standard.
(16) For others, it's a symbiotic process; a campaigning idea might be expressed through craft – let's say you're making a patchwork quilt out of embroidered vulvas, to protest against female genital mutilation – and then in the act of crafting, the idea finds new expression.
(17) Even with the quilt it gets pretty cold, but exercise helps."
(18) In each case a quilted, split-skin grafted pectoralis major muscle flap was used.
(19) Some of them presented talks in which they applied high level maths to crochet, knitting, needlework and quilting.
(20) This report describes two female patients, 69 and 79 years old, with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) developing from erythema ab igne (EAI) due to thermal irradiation from a sunken hearth (irori in Japanese) or an underfloor brazier covered with a quilt (kotatsu in Japanese).