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quilled


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  His  cravat  seemed  quilled  into  a  ruff.  --Goldsmith. 
 
  2.  To  wind  on  a  quill,  as  thread  or  yarn.  --Judd. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Quilled  \Quilled\,  a. 
  Furnished  with  quills;  also  shaped  like  quills.  ``A 
  sharp-quilled  porcupine.''  --Shak. 
 
  {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.