a. Having good or fine limbs.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, I. 2043. [Jason] So wel I-lemed and compact by mesure.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 151. Thinhabitantes are of high and goodly stature, well lymmed and proportioned.
1626. Maldon (Essex) Documents, Bundle 208 No. 9. A well-lymb’d gelding.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 14. The people are … well limmed and proper, nor want they courage … to their limmes.
1706. Lond. Gaz., No. 4249/4. Lost…, a … Horse,… a very strong well-limb’d Punch.
1792. Ann. Reg., Charac., 359. She was well limbed though so low of stature.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U.S., V. liv. 137. He was tall and slender, well-limbed, of a graceful address.
