a. [WELL adv. 32.] Having good bodily development.
1481. Cely Papers (Camden), 59. Sche ys as goodly a ȝeunge whomane as fayr as whelbodyd [etc.].
1484. Caxton, G. de la Tour, C iij b. Loo ther is a welbodyed woman which is wel worthy to be belouyd of somme knyght.
1594. Knack to know a Knave, E 4. My Lord, she is … Well bodied, but her face was something blacke, Lyke those that follow houshold businesse.
a. 1653. Binning, Comm. Princ., Wks. (1735), 28/2. By this he grew to the Stature of a tall and well-bodyed Christian.
1728. Pope, Dunc., II. 42. All as a partridge plump, full-fed, and fair, She form’d this image of well-body’d air.
