QUILL

Quill

Quill has been the name of four different fictional comic book characters in the Marvel Comics universe. All, however, are human mutants.

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QUILL

The Quintiq Logic Language is a high level object oriented programming language created by the Dutch software company Quintiq.

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quill

Noun

  1. The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
  2. A pen made from a feather.
  3. Any pen.
    He picked up his quill and wrote a poem.
  4. 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.
  5. A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
  6. The pen of a squid.
  7. The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
  8. The tube of a musical instrument.
  9. Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.

Verb

  1. To pierce or be pierced with quills.
  2. To write.
  3. To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
  4. To decorate with quillwork.


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