quillet

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von quillet im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A small plot of land; historically: a strip of land that together with others like it formed a larger field

A quibble, an evasive distinction

Hence it comes that such a pack of vile buffoons intrude with unwashed feet upon the sacred precinct of Theology, bringing with them nothing save brazen impudence, and some hackneyed quillets and scholastic trifles not good enough for a crowd at a street corner.

{n} a subtility, nicety, quibble

A roll of dried bark; as, a quill of cinnamon or of cinchona

To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill aruffle

quidebet, a subtle case in law

an oral quibble

The bark is finely laminated, and very heavy with alkaline substances, and is

To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn

The bark of a rosaceous tree (Quillaja Saponaria), native of Chili

A hollow spindle

Something having the form of a quill The fold or plain of a ruff

a small plot of land

A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle

Subtilty; nicety; quibble

Silbentrennung

quil·let

Etymologie

() Shortened from quillity.