ppl. a. Also with adv., as in, on.
1679. Oldham, Sat. Jesuits, I. (1681), 19. That damn’d Committee, whom the Fates ordain Of all our well-laid Plots to be the bane.
1826. Galt, Last of Lairds, iv. 31. A weel-laid-on whack o’ the tawse.
1847. Surtees, Hawbuck Grange, xii. 247. Our friends now got among nice, level, well-laid, well-pleached fences. Ibid. (1854), Handley Cr., li. (1901), II. 92. Jorrocks, who is well-laid in on the road for a view, screeches and holloas them on.
