ppl. a. [f. TRELLIS sb.2 or v. + -ED.]
1. Furnished with a trellis or trellis-work; formed of trellis-work; trained upon a trellis.
1472. Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 94. Pro iiij Trillest-wyndous empt. pro coquina.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, III. iii. 10. The full mone … In throw the tirlist wyndo schane by nycht.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Trellised, crosse-barred, latticed, grated, with wood.
1814. Southey, Roderick, XVI. 28. Their trelliced vines.
1844. Lever, T. Burke, xxvii. The trellised walls covered with honeysuckles and wild roses.
1889. S. Langdon, Appeal to Serpent, ii. 42. Assisting the tendrils of a beautiful passion-flower to grasp the next highest bar of a trellised arch.
2. Shaped or arranged like a trellis; having a pattern or markings resembling a trellis.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 5. The Common Fly … The like foraminulous perforations or trelliced eyes are in all Flyes.
1822. J. Parkinson, Outl. Oryctol., 40. Ramifications … disposed in a trellised form.
1828. Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1864), I. 320. [The armour of David earl of Huntingdon] is of the species called by the contemporary Norman writers the ‘trellissed,’ and consists of a cloth coat, or vest,… intersected by broad straps of leather, laid on so as to cross each other, but to leave intervening squares of the cloth, in the middle of which is a round knob or stud of steel.
1835–6. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 712/1. These striæ, ridges and furrows, may cross one another, and the shell is then trellised.
a. 1873. Lytton, Ken. Chillingly, II. ix. Its … trellised [wall-]paper.
b. Her. = LATTICED 2 c.
1889. Elvin, Dict. Her., Treille or Trillise, a Lattice, or Trellis, a pattern resembling fretty, but always nailed at each intersection; also termed Trellised cloué.
1894. in Parker’s Gloss. Her., 586.
