Quill - Law Dictionary Search Results

Cittern

An instrument shaped like a lute but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum

Calamar

Their shell is a thin horny plate within the flesh of the back shaped very much like a quill pen In America they are called squids See Squid

Plectrum

A small instrument of ivory wood metal or quill used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments

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Ratteen

A thick woolen stuff quilled or twilled

Any Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix having the back covered with long sharp erectile spines or quills sometimes a foot long The common species of Europe and Asia Hystrix cristata is the best known

Pennigerous

Bearing feathers or quills

Penguin

or Ptilopteri They are covered with short thick feathers almost scalelike on the wings which are without true quills They are unable to fly but use their wings to aid in diving in which they are very

Harpsichord

like the grand piano with strings of wire played by the fingers by means of keys provided with quills instead of hammers for striking the strings It is now superseded by the piano

Kingbird

various insects upon the wing It is dark ash above and blackish on the bead and tail The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges It is white beneath with a white terminal band on

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