different between quilled vs quilly

English

Etymology

quill +? -ed

Adjective

quilled (comparative more quilled, superlative most quilled)

1. Having quills or similar structures.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, Scene I:

     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;

   • 2010, T. Lloyd Winetsky, Maria Juana's Gift: A Novel, Sunstone Press (2010), ?ISBN, page 148:

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

   • 2011, Alesa Corrin, Jonathan: The Griffin Prince, AuthorHouse (2011), ?ISBN, page 234:

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

2. (of a flower) Having long, narrow petals or florets.
   • 1889, William Robinson, The English Flower Garden: Style, Position, And Arrangement, John Murray (1899), page 291:

     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 […]

3. Created through the process of quilling.
4. (of fabric) Having small, rounded folds.
   • 1844, Louisa Stuart Costello, Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen, Volume 1, R. Bentley (1844), page 169:

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

   • 1909, Henry C. Shelley, Inns and Taverns of Old London, L.C. Page and Company (1909):

     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.

5. Decorated with quillwork.

Verb

quilled

1. simple past tense and past participle of quill

English

Etymology

From quill +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kw?li/
• Rhymes: -?li

Adjective

quilly (comparative more quilly, superlative most quilly)

1. Pertaining to or resembling a quill. [from 16th c.]
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXXVIII:

     The fabrick of the wing, as it appears through a moderately magnifying Microscope, seems to be a body consisting of two parts […]; the one is a quilly or finny substance, consisting of several long, slender and variously bended quills or wires, something resembling the veins of leaves […].

2. With quills; quilled. [from 18th c.]
   • 2005, Jean M. Thompson, Wild Kindred of Fur, Feather and Fin (page 79)

     […] sometimes you may even run across a quilly ball lying right on top of the ledge, or catch one of the numerous porcupine family picking its way leisurely among the rocks.