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well-limned, ppl. a. lit. and fig.
Also 7 -limb'd, lim'd, limmed.
(See limn v. 3, 3 b.)
Quot. 1616 perh. belongs to well-limbed.
1597Middleton Wisd. Solomon xiv. 18 The crafts-man..makes the idoll comely, faire, and great, With well limnd visage, and best fashioned shape. 1616W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. i. 20 Neere this the curious Pencell did expresse A large and solitary wildernesse, Whose high well limmed Oakes in growing show'd As they would ease strong Atlas of his load. 1637S. Marmion in T. Heywood Descr. H.M. Ship (1638) To Author A 3 b, Now for a Homer whose immortall Verse In well lim'd lines, and raptures might rehearse The bravery of this Vessell. 1652F. Grevil's Sidney Ep. Ded., Both your Bloud and Vertues do so strongly Intitle you to this well-limb'd Piece. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 468 It is the part of Poetry to have a judicious Reception of a well-lim'd Notion. |