"quilly" meaning in English

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          "text": "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 […].",
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        "Pertaining to or resembling a quill."
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