'Quilled' definitions:
Definition of 'Quilled'
From: GCIDE
- Quilled \Quilled\, a. Furnished with quills; also, shaped like quills. "A sharp-quilled porcupine." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Quilled suture (Surg.), a variety of stitch in which the threads after being passed deeply through the edges of a wound are secured about two quills or bodies of similar shape, in order to produce a suitable degree of pressure. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Quilled'
From: GCIDE
- Quill \Quill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Quilling.]
- 1. To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle. [1913 Webster]
- His cravat seemed quilled into a ruff. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn. --Judd. [1913 Webster]