Feather vs. Quill

Feathernoun

A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.

Feathernoun

Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.

Feathernoun

One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.

Feathernoun

A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.

Feathernoun

Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").

Feathernoun

One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.

Feathernoun

The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

Featherverb

To cover or furnish with feathers.

Featherverb

To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.

Featherverb

To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.

Featherverb

(aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.

Featherverb

To finely shave or bevel an edge.

Featherverb

(computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.

Featherverb

To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.

Featherverb

To render light as a feather; to give wings to.

Featherverb

To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.

Featherverb

To tread, as a cock.

Featherverb

(snooker) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim

Feathernoun

One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

Feathernoun

Kind; nature; species; - from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.

Feathernoun

The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.

Feathernoun

A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.

Feathernoun

One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.

Feathernoun

A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.

Feathernoun

A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.

Feathernoun

The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

Featherverb

To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.

Featherverb

To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.

Featherverb

To render light as a feather; to give wings to.

Featherverb

To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.

Featherverb

To tread, as a cock.

Featherverb

To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; - often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.

Featherverb

To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers.

Featherverb

To turn to a horizontal plane; - said of oars.

Featherverb

To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.

Feathernoun

the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds

Feathernoun

turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls

Featherverb

join tongue and groove, in carpentry

Featherverb

cover or fit with feathers

Featherverb

turn the paddle; in canoeing

Featherverb

turn the oar, while rowing

Featherverb

grow feathers;

Feather

Feathers are epidermal growths that form a distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on dinosaurs, both avian (bird) and some non-avian (non-bird) and possibly other archosauromorphs. They are considered the most complex integumentary structures found in vertebrates and a premier example of a complex evolutionary novelty.

Quillnoun

The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.

Quillnoun

A pen made from a feather.

Quillnoun

(figuratively) Any pen.

Quillnoun

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.

Quillnoun

A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.

Quillnoun

The pen of a squid.

Quillnoun

(music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.

Quillnoun

(music) The tube of a musical instrument.

Quillnoun

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.

Quillverb

To pierce or be pierced with quills.

Quillverb

(figuratively) To write.

Quillverb

To form fabric into small, rounded folds.

Quillverb

To decorate with quillwork.

Quillverb

To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).

Quillnoun

One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.

Quillnoun

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.

Quillnoun

A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.

Quillnoun

The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.

Quillnoun

Something having the form of a quill

Quillnoun

A roll of dried bark; as, a quill of cinnamon or of cinchona.

Quillverb

To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.

Quillverb

To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.

Quillnoun

pen made from a bird's feather

Quillnoun

a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog

Quillnoun

any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird

Quillnoun

the hollow shaft of a feather

Quill

A quill is a writing tool made from a moulted flight feather (preferably a primary wing-feather) of a large bird. Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen, the metal-nibbed pen, the fountain pen, and, eventually, the ballpoint pen.