Quills is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for QUILLS in dictionary:

VERB:
• QUILL, to press small ridges in
• form (fabric) into small cylindrical folds.
NOUN:
• any of the main wing or tail feathers of a bird.
• the hollow shaft of a feather, especially the lower part or calamus that lacks barbs.
• a pen made from a main wing or tail feather of a large bird by pointing and slitting the end of the shaft
• the hollow sharp spines of a porcupine, hedgehog, or other spiny mammal.
• pan pipes.

Words related to QUILLS

quill14 quilled17 quilling18

Words that contain QUILLS

squills16

How to use QUILLS in a sentence

• With her teeth she seized the ends of two or three of the quills and pulled them out.
• Instinctively he shunned the porcupine without experiencing the torture of its quills.
• As Thor had more than once come into contact with porcupine quills, he hesitated.
• Recovered from your fatigue, you ascend the steps of a marble palace, and enter but to find it garrisoned by shabby regiments armed with quills and steel pens.
• His lip and eye denoted the man of unyielding temper, and his very hair, slightly silvered, stood erect like quills round his wrinkled brow, as if they scorned to bend.
• Age after age the quills had been falling, forming a mould several inches thick.
• It made a frightful noise, erecting its quills so boldly, that the wounded animals howled with pain after every attempt to seize it.
• These cords extended some length beyond the quills on each side, so that on placing the feathers erect on the head, the cords could be tied together at the back of the head.
• They frequently ornament them with beads, porcupine quills and rude paintings.
• He picked up one of the goose quills and began separating it into little pieces.
• The pipe is generally of red earth, the stem made of ash, about three or four feet long, and highly decorated with feathers, hair and porcupine quills.
• The chief ornament is over the breast, where there are curious figures made with the usual luxury of porcupine quills.
• There is the same objection, in a less degree, to quills.
• The quills used for this purpose are first inspected by passing them through a gauge rather smaller than the vent.
• My hair, at thought of dark design, Or dynamitish fate, Stood up like quills of porcupine, But more than twice as straight.
• The modified quills on the tail, with dilated barb-like free ends are not numerous, and are also white.
• Two strips of beaver skin tipped with six quills of the porcupine are attached to the right of the throat.
• The quills under his muzzle stabbed him and he raised it with a sharp yelp of pain.
• Then they would run it off on what they called quills.
• He once saw amongst them a woman, who had her teeth filed round, it was supposed, by way of ornament, and as they were very long, they resembled crow quills.
• Some of the beautiful black and ivory white quills are more than twelve inches long and very sharp.
• The school was in the country, and it was the old times when quills, instead of steel pens, were universally used.
• Sound-producing quills from the tail of the Porcupine 93 12.
• Now, when the tail is rapidly shaken, these hollow quills strike against each other and produce, as I heard in the presence of Mr.
• Paper, quills, and ink were handed down from a shelf and Joseph retired into the shop.
• It was only a wide tan straw with three exquisite peacock quills at one side.
• These articles Don Johnny traded to the interior Indians for the gold dust that they washed from the Andean streams and stored in quills and bags against his coming.
• It made him think of the time he had tried to kill a porcupine himself, and had got his paws stuck full of quills.

Similar words containing QUILL without suffix s

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