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Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two cloths and stitching them together; also, any outer bed cover. The beds were covered with magnificent quilts. Arbuthnot.

One who, or that which, quilts.

The act of stitching or running in patterns, as in making a quilt.

A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.

Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.

A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.

Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.

A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet. [U. S.]

ng of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee. [U. S.] The cellar . . . was dug by a bee in a single day. S. G. Goodrich.

A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress. This arm shall be a bolster for thy head. Gay.

A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable. [U. S.]

A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter; a comfort. [U. S.]

A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable. [U. S.] Job's comforter, a boil. [Colloq.]

Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.

when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; -- called also funny bone. -- Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement.

One quilty of a fault; a criminal.

exist in any question of fact) but a defect of proof preventing a reasonable assurance of quilt. Wharton.

A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, etc.

A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted.

To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame. Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his quilty name. T. Dawes.