Meaning

Having quills or similar structures..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having quills or similar structures.
2. (of a flower) Having long, narrow petals or florets.
3. Created through the process of quilling.
4. (of fabric) Having small, rounded folds.
5. Decorated with quillwork.
6. simple past and past participle of quill

Example Sentences

In Ireland have I seen this stubborn Cade Oppose himself against a troop of kerns, And fought so long till that his thighs with darts Were almost like a sharp-quill'd porpentine;

He leaned down to inspect a white-quilled cactus, and then spotted a different kind with skinnier branches and only a few drab spines.

A quilled lionfish was face to face with a saurian moray eel, sizing it up before swimming on.

In the wild state the flowers are single—that is to say, only the outer florets are strap-shaped, and usually of a rosy-lilac tint, with yellowish disc florets; but under cultivation, all the florets have become ligulate or quilled […]

Round the throat is a ruff of white muslin, quilled in large reverse plaids; […]

He insensibly began to alter his appearance; his cravat seemed quilled into a ruff, and his breeches swelled out into a farlingale. I now fancied him changing sexes; and as my eyes began to close in slumber, I imagined my fat landlord actually converted into as fat a landlady.

Word Forms

• more quilled
• most quilled

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