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Definition of Quills
1. quill [v] - See also: quill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quills
Literary usage of Quills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The quills are loosely inserted in the skin, and may, on being violently shaken,
become detached—a circumstance which may probably have given rise to the ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"Above varied pale-red and brown, beneath whitish ; chest brown, scarcely spotted ;
quills and tail-feather fuscous-brown, two outer white-edged; ..."
3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1865)
"G. violácea has the crown, back and wings greenish bronze; the upper part of the
back violet blue, and the tail and quills of a lighter red than in my ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"quills, the large feathers of the wings of birds, the hollow tubes of which,
being properly cleaned of all oily or fatty matter, and dried, ..."
5. The Saturday Magazine (1838)
"Concerning quills, much doubt exists as to when they were first applied to the
... The principal birds from which quills have been obtained for making pens, ..."
6. Ornithology by Geological Survey of California, James Graham Cooper (1870)
"Primary quills, or quills of the first series; Hand-quills ... The innermost of
these quills, sometimes longer or different from the rest, are frequently ..."
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