These are the meanings of the letters ALQUILO when you unscramble them.
- Quail (n.)
A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
- Quail (n.)
Any gallinaceous bird belonging to Coturnix and several allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis).
- Quail (n.)
Any one of numerous species of Turnix and allied genera, native of the Old World, as the Australian painted quail (Turnix varius). See Turnix.
- Quail (n.)
Any one of several American partridges belonging to Colinus, Callipepla, and allied genera, especially the bobwhite (called Virginia quail, and Maryland quail), and the California quail (Calipepla Californica).
- Quail (v. i.)
To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower.
- Quail (v. i.)
To curdle; to coagulate, as milk.
- Quail (v. i.)
To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.
- Quail (v. t.)
To cause to fail in spirit or power; to quell; to crush; to subdue.
- Quill (n.)
A hollow spindle.
- Quill (n.)
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.
- Quill (n.)
A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
- Quill (n.)
A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
- Quill (n.)
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.
- Quill (n.)
Something having the form of a quill
- Quill (n.)
The fold or plain of a ruff.
- Quill (n.)
The pen of a squid. See Pen.
- Quill (n.)
The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- Quill (n.)
The tube of a musical instrument.
- Quill (v. t.)
To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.
- Quill (v. t.)
To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.
- Quoll (n.)
A marsupial of Australia (Dasyurus macrurus), about the size of a cat.