ppl. a.
1. Skilfully delineated. Also of the human form: Well modelled or proportioned.
1679. C. Nesse, Antichrist, Ded. As a dark soil in a well drawn picture.
1709. Shaftesb., Moralists, I. iii. 30. Not captivated by the Lineaments of a fair Face, or the well-drawn Proportions of a human Body.
1855. Kingsley, Glaucus, 162. Two little ‘Popular’ Histories … furnished … with well-drawn and coloured plates.
2. Strongly stretched, straightened out, etc.
1725. Pope, Odyss., VIII. 262. In fighting fields as far the spear I throw, As flies an arrow from the well-drawn bow.
1864. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., XXV. 363. A thick coat of well-drawn dry wheat-straw is then laid over them [sc. the potatoes].
