a. Obs. [WELL adv. 32.] Having good eyes; keen-sighted.
c. 1400. Master of Game (MS. Digby 182), xviii. And also þat he be both in felde and at wode delyuere and wele yȝed and wele auysed of speche.
1483. Caxton, Golden Leg., 339/2. This ymage … was well eyed, well browed [etc.].
1561. Daus, trans. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573), 59. Let the gallauntes of this worlde,… so well eyed, and gorgeously apparelled, marke these thynges well.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. lxxiii. 17. They doo nought else but dote, that wilbe wel eyed and quiksyghted of themselues.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., July, 154. Shepheard mought be … well eyed, as Argus was. Ibid. (1596), State Irel., Wks. (Globe), 626/1. Yet there appeareth amongest them some reliques of the true antiquitye, though disguised, which a well-eyed man may happely discover and find out.
