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† 1. Stout-hearted, courageous. Obs.
1606. G. W[oodcocke], Hist. Ivstine, XXXVIII. 121. The Scithians besides that they be well harnessed, and well harted [praeter arma virtutemque animi].
a. 1614. J. Melvill, Autob. & Diary (Wodrow Soc.), 223. But nocht halff sa resolut and weill-harted to feght in the quarrell as our men war.
1714. R. Smith, Poems of Controversy (1853), 61. Athols souldiers,… Quick, Swift, well hearted & most prompt in hands.
2. Well-disposed, kind-hearted, generous.
1766. Ld. Kames, in Complete Farmer, s.v. Flax 3 M 1 b. This prospect must be agreeable to every well-hearted Briton.
1861. R. Quinn, Heather Lintie (1863), 36. But then his son Is a weel-hearted winsome chiel, And’s fond o’ fun.
1920. Mrs. Harker, Montagu Wycherly, i. 22. Kind little girl! so frank and friendly, so fresh and simple, so transparently ‘well-hearted’ towards all the world.
