Anagrams of: QUILL_

• an examination consisting of a few short questions

• examine someone's knowledge of something

• a witty saying

• witty remark

• make jokes or quips

• pen made from a bird's feather

• a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog

• any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird

• the hollow spine of a feather

• bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant

• having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties

• an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers

• the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence

• something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises

• a wad of something chewable as tobacco

• flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised

• small gallinaceous game birds

• draw back, as with fear or pain

• bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

• stitch or sew together

• create by stitching together

• pen made from a bird's feather

• a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog

• any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird

• the hollow spine of a feather

• suppress or crush completely

• overcome or allay

• Any of the various carnivorous marsupials of the genus Dasyurus found in Australia and New Guinea, roughly the size of a cat.