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quill | null |
The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
A pen made from a feather.
(figuratively) Any pen.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
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.
A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
The pen of a squid.
(music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
(music) The tube of a musical instrument.
* Milton
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.
To pierce or be pierced with quills.
* 1966 , David Francis Costello, The World of the Porcupine , J. B. Lippincott & Company, page 66:
* 2010 , Mark Parman, A Grouse Hunter's Almanac: The Other Kind of Hunting , University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0-299-24920-5,
(figuratively) To write.
* 1939 , , Finnegans Wake , page 182:
* 1976 , , Investigative Poetry , City Lights (1976), page 11:
To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
To decorate with quillwork.
* 2007 , David J. Wishart, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians , University of Nebraska Press (2007), ISBN 0-8032-9862-5,
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As a proper noun quill
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.quill
English
Noun
(en noun)- He picked up his quill and wrote a poem.
- He touched the tender stops of various quills .
Verb
(en verb)- Coyotes, bears, and mountain lions which occasionally kill porcupines are sometimes quilled .
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- Then one of my dogs got quilled , and it happened again a month later. After putting the dog in a headlock, yanking out several dozen quills, and spurting blood all over myself and the decking of the back porch, I at least understood his antiporcupine venom.
- Nibs never would have quilled a seriph to sheepskin.
- One has only to recall that Coleridge and Wordsworth one day were lounging by the sea shore, while nearby sat an English police agent on snitch patrol prepared to rush to headquarters to quill a report about the conversation.
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- Another characteristic of Plains Indians was the fairly strict division between art made and used by men and art made and used by women. Although men and women sometimes cooperated, women usually painted or quilled very balanced, controlled geometric designs on dresses, moccasins, robes, bags, and containers.
References
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.