QUILL

n : An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an a . This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence. QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments. He extracted from his quiver, Did this controversial Roman, An argument well fitted To the question as submitted, Then addre ed it to the liver, Of the unpersuaded foeman. Oglum P. Boomp. 275