To decorate with feathers.
To grow, cover or be covered with feathers.
To complete the last moult and become a winged adult insect.
To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight.
To decorate with quillwork.
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 form fabric into small, rounded folds.
To write.
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.
A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
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.