ppl. a. (Said of an animal, a machine, etc.)
1623. Lisle, Ælfric on O. & N. Test. (Crawford), 66. Make me now ready a well going horse.
1786. Burns, Inventory, 10. My han ahins a weel gaun fillie. Ibid., Addr. Unco Guid, 5. Whase life is like a weel-gaun mill, Supplyd wi store o water.
1789. Cowper, Lett. to S. Rose, 5 June. It seems they are well going clocks, and cheap.
1895. Crockett, Men of Moss-Hags, xxxii. 236. Her well-going talk eased my heart in the midst of so many troubles.