â¢ QUILL (noun) The noun QUILL has 4 senses: 1. pen made from a bird's feather. 2. a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog. 3. any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird. 4. the hollow spine of a feather. Familiarity information: QUILL used as a noun is uncommon.
Babies usually start around at 10 months of age. When they begin to try walking, their communicating skills sometimes start to disappear because they tend to concentrate only on one thing. Talking starts to appear again around 18 to 24 months.
When to Expect Talking to Begin. Baby babble will start forming into words somewhere around 12 months, although the sweet sound of your child's first words may appear as early as nine months, says Kimberly Scanlon, a speech pathologist in Ramsey, New Jersey and author of My Toddler Talks.