1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. G The Vrchin & the quilled Porpentine; Are good for medicine.

1783 G. Colman in W. Cooke Capricious Lady Epil. Maidens of Queen Bess's reign..Quill'd up like porcupines, they shot their darts.

a1821 J. Keats in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 272 Or your very roundelay Will sear my plumage newly budded From its quilled sheath.

1901 E. Arnold Voy. Ithobal iv. 92 Strange things stole to drink..The long-faced hartebeest, quilled porcupines, Crook-tusked wart-hogs [etc.].

1952 D. Thomas Coll. Poems p. ix O kingdom of neighbours, finned Felled and quilled, flash to my patch.

2006 Times (Nexis) 26 June 11 Porcupines often back up towards their attackers and lash out with their quilled tails.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory xiii. 303 At each point an Ostritch Feather of the third, quilled or Shafts, Sable.

1788 H. Clark & T. Wormull Short & Easy Introd. Heraldry (ed. 6) ii. 121 Three ostrich feathers, argent, quilled or.

1797 T. Langley Hist. & Antiq. Desborough & Wycombe 393 A porcupine azure quilled, collared and lined or.

1847 H. Gough Gloss. Terms Brit. Heraldry 132 In case the quill should differ in colour from the rest of the feather, the term penned, quilled, or shafted may be employed.

1894 H. Gough & J. Parker Gloss. Terms Heraldry (new ed.) 473 Porcupine..may be quilled of another tincture.

1723 tr. R. J. C. de Garengeot Treat. Chirurg. Operations iii. 33 The quilled Suture [Fr. suture enchevillée] is the safest way of reuniting those Wounds, wherein the Muscles are deeply cut, and the Parts naturally disposed to recede from one another.

1768 tr. L. Heister Gen. Syst. Surg. I. i. vi. 74 A large crooked needle, for stitching large Wounds, with a double Thread, to make the quilled Suture.

1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) 817/2 The quilled suture..is merely the interrupted suture, with this difference, that the ligatures are not tied over the face of the wound, but over two quills or rolls of plaster, or bougies, which are laid along the sides of the wound.

1878 G. Armatage Every Man his own Horse Doctor 651 The quilled suture..is particularly adapted for large wounds.

1906 Lancet 27 Jan. 208/2 The complicated modes of uniting the ruptured perineum with quilled sutures and other elaborate devices have in their turn given place to the original simple suture.

1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 349/1 The Spinet had but one string to each note, which was struck by a quilled jack.

1886 Proc. Musical Assoc. (12th Sess., 1885–6) 141 The quilled instruments were early imported into this country.

1979 Early Music 7 489/2 The wing-shaped instrument is called clavisimbalum, and three quilled actions (together with one hammered action) are drawn above it.

1989 E. M. Ripin et al. Early Keyboard Instruments iii. 155 Neither devoted as much space to clavichords as to quilled instruments.

a1861 T. Winthrop Edwin Brothertoft (1862) viii. 65 She appeared at a masquerade as Pocahontas, in a fringed and quilled buckskin robe.

1932 Los Angeles Times 27 Mar. (Mag. section) 12/3 They had..put on their fringed and beaded and quilled war clothes and bonnets of eagle feathers.

1967 T. W. Blackburn Good Day to Die xiii. 96 He wore the most beautifully quilled moccasins.

2004 Whispering Wind (Electronic text) Sept.–Oct. 44 The American flag has long been a favorite design feature of Plains Indian quilled and beaded items.

1733 R. Furber Short Introd. Gardening 46 Quill'd African Marigold.

1752 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. at Tagetes Greatest upright African Marigold, with a large double pale-yellow and piped Flower, commonly called the quilled African.

1815 Bot. Reg. 1 Pl. 4 Chrysanthemum indicum. The yellow and the white quilled indian marygold... The florets have a greater tendency to retain their tubular or, as the gardeners term it, ‘quilled’ form; and not to open into thongs or ligulæ.

1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 129 In the Dahlia the florets are rendered quilled [by cultivation].

1922 Sci. Monthly Jan. 6 Other variations which were brought out from time to time were..flowers with petals divided, others quilled and still others rolled into tight tubes.

1963 R. D. Meikle Garden Flowers 213 The quaint ‘quilled’ Aster with capitula composed entirely of ray-florets, but with the corollas slenderly tubular, and sticking out like quills or bristles from the receptacle.

1990 Garden (Royal Hort. Soc.) June 318/1 We can obtain cosmos..with novel flower structures, such as quilled or rolled petals.

1750 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 6) at Cortex peruvianus The small, fine, quilled barks..are the most esteemed.

1797 J. Jones Med., Philos. & Vulgar Errors 99 The reason why we see more of the quilled sort than that of the body of the tree is..that if a tree is barked it will die.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 131 The lance-leaved, pale, or quilled bark.

1874 J. B. Biddle Materia Medica (ed. 6) 126 It [sc. Peruvian bark] is obtained by stripping the branches and trunks of the Cinchona trees..and is dried by exposure to the sun, during which process the smaller pieces usually become quilled.

1999 A. H. Maehle Drugs on Trial iv. 277 He had also learned that the thin bark (i.e. the curling or ‘quilled’ bark from younger trees) was now preferred in Europe.

1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 411 The retort was set in a reverberatory furnace, and an adopter and quilled receiver luted to it.

1806 W. Henry Epitome Chem. (ed. 4) i. i. 8 It is expedient to have the quilled part accurately ground to the neck of the bottle.

1855 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circle Sci.: Elem. 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.

1866 J. J. Griffin Chem. Handicraft 200 Quilled Receiver of slight blown glass, to use with Tube Retorts.