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well-limbed, a.
Having good or fine limbs.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. 2043 [Jason] So wel I-lemed and compact by mesure. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 151 Thinhabitantes are of high and goodly stature, well lymmed and proportioned. 1626Maldon (Essex) Documents Bundle 208 No. 9 A well-lymb'd gelding. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 14 The people are..well limmed and proper, nor want they courage..to their limmes. 1706Lond. Gaz. No. 4249/4 Lost.., a..Horse,..a very strong well-limb'd Punch. 1792Ann. Reg., Charac. 359 She was well limbed though so low of stature. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. liv. 137 He was tall and slender, well-limbed, of a graceful address. |