a. [f. VOLUME sb. and v.]
1. Made into a volume or volumes of a specified size, number, etc.
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, L j b. A little epitomizd Bradfords Meditations, no broader volum’d than a Seale at Armes.
1609. F. Grevil, Mustapha, I. Chorus. There, as in margents of great volum’d bookes The little notes.
1870. ‘A. R. Hope,’ My Schoolboy Fr., Pref. p. iv. Older readers, who have supped full of the horrors of three volumed novels.
b. Filling a volume or volumes.
1746. Francis, trans. Horace, Sat., I. x. 89. Whose volumed works … Kindled around thy corse the funeral fire. Ibid., Epist., I. iv. 5. Do you … Some rhiming Labours meditate, That shall in volum’d Bulk arise.
c. Furnished with volumes.
1897. Howells, Landlord at Lion’s Head, 225. The room … was volumed round by the collections of her grandfather.
2. Formed into a rolling, rounded or dense mass.
1803. Scott, Cadyow Castle, xxiv. For the hearth’s domestic blaze, Ascends destruction’s volumed flame.
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., II. xlviii. The distant torrent’s rushing sound Tells where the volum’d cataract doth roll. Ibid. (1813), Corsair, II. v. 18. His breath choked gasping with the volumed smoke.
1855. Bailey, Mystic, 31. They in his hands the volumed lightnings laid.
1887. Meredith, Appeasement of Demeter, ix. The volumed shades enfold An earth in awe before the claps resound.
