a. and ppl. a. [f. QUILL sb.1 and v. + -ED.]
1. Having the form of a quill or quills.
a. of cinchona bark: see QUILL sb.1 1 d.
1727–41. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Cortex, The small, fine, quilled barks … are the most esteemed.
1786. T. Skeetes (title), Experiments and Observations on Quilled and Red Peruvian Bark.
1822–34. Good’s Stud. Med. (ed. 4), I. 630. The lance-leaved, pale, or quilled bark.
1895. Chambers’ Encycl., s.v. Cinchona, The quilled form of the thinner bark is acquired in drying.
b. of cloth: see QUILL v. 1. Also (of persons) quilled up: wearing a quilled ruff.
1783. Colman, Prose Sev. Occas. (1787), III. 237. (The Maidens of Queen Bess’s reign) Quill’d up like Porcupines, they shot their darts.
1804. Collins, Scripscrapologia, 32.
| While a close quill’d up coif their noddles just did fit, Sir, | |
| And they truss’d up as tight as a rabbit for the spit, Sir. |
1858–61. J. Brown, Horæ Subs., Jacob. Fam. (1882), 110. A close cap with a quilled border.
1886. St. Stephen’s Rev., 13 March, 14/1. The border … was entirely composed of fully quilled black lace.
c. of glass: (see quot. 1854).
1800. Henry, Epit. Chem. (1808), 8. It is expedient to have the quilled part accurately ground to the neck of the bottle.
1854. J. Scoffern, in Orr’s Circ. Sc., Chem., 301. Every portion of the glass tube is of the kind known as quilled glass, not much larger … than the stem of a clay tobacco-pipe.
d. Bot. of florets: Tubular, instead of normally ligulate. Hence of flowers: Having tubular florets.
1825. Greenhouse Comp., I. 126. The varieties of the Chrysanthemum … are, the … Quilled white,… Quilled yellow [etc.].
1849. Florist, 233. The quilled form is an instance of it.
1876. Encycl. Brit., IV. 129. In the Dahlia the florets are rendered quilled [by cultivation].
2. Having, or fitted with, a quill or quills.
a. of a receiver: Ending in a narrow tube.
1767. Woulfe, in Phil. Trans., LVII. 411. The retort was set in a reverberatory furnace, and an adopter and quilled receiver luted to it.
1800. Henry, Epit. Chem. (1815), I. 7. To some receivers a pipe is added … which may enter partly into a bottle beneath. This vessel … is termed a quilled receiver.
b. of a suture: Having the thread secured to pieces of quill on each side of the wound.
1768. trans. Heister’s Surg., I. I. vi. 74. A large crooked needle, for stitching large Wounds, with a double Thread, to make the quilled Suture.
c. of a jack in a harpsichord: Tipped with a piece of crow-quill.
1842. Penny Cycl., XXII. 349/1. The Spinet had but one string to each note, which was struck by a quilled jack.
d. Her. of a feather: Having a quill (of a specified tincture).
1864. in Boutell, Her. Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3), 86.
