What is the meaning of QUILL. Phrases containing QUILL
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Personalized technique of blowing a locomotive whistle, applicable only in the days before the whistles became standardized
Quill is American slang for a match−book cover folded to hold cocaine, heroin, methedrine etc for sniffing.
Whistle (term used especially in the South)
Cocaine; heroin; methamphetamine
a matchbox cover when folded used for sniffing (snorting) narcotics
(1) a thin stream of cocaine on a mirror or other smooth surface, which is sniffed through a quill —a rolled matchbook cover, tube, straw, or tightly rolled dollar bill, etc. (2) a measure of cocaine for sale
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One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
v. t.
To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.
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A quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such a quill.
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A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark.
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Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; -- said of quills.
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A band of linen, muslin, or the like, fluted, folded, or plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills.
v. t.
A quill, or spool, for yarn.
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A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type.
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The quillback.
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A plaited, quilled, or goffered strip of lace, net, ribbon, or other material, -- used in place of collars or cuffs, and as a trimming for women's dresses and bonnets.
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Any marine annelid of the genus Hyalinaecia, especially H. tubicola of Europe, which inhabits a transparent movable tube resembling a quill in color and texture.
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Something having the form of a quill
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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.
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An extinct order of birds having a long vertebrated tail with quills along each side of it. Archaeopteryx is the type. See Archaeopteryx, and Odontornithes.
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A thin membrane surrounding the sporocarps of quillworts Isoetes).
v. t.
To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.
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Furnished with quills; also, shaped like quills.
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