A mixture of turpentine and egg yolk, formerly used as an emulsion.
A form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving birth. Human and bovine colostrum is thick and yellowish. In humans, it has high concentrations of nutrients and antibodies, but it is small in quantity.
A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
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.
The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
The tube of a musical instrument.
A pen made from a feather.
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.
The pen of a squid.
Any pen.
To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
To pierce or be pierced with quills.
To decorate with quillwork.
To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
To write.