ppl. a. Also 7 -limb’d, lim’d, limmed. lit. and fig. (See LIMN v. 3, 3 b.)
Quot. 1616 perh. belongs to WELL-LIMBED.
1597. Middleton, Wisd. Solomon, xiv. 18. The crafts-man … makes the idoll comely, faire, and great, With well limnd visage, and best fashioned shape.
1616. W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. i. 20. Neere this the curious Pencell did expresse A large and solitary wildernesse, Whose high well limmed Oakes in growing show’d As they would ease strong Atlas of his load.
1637. S. Marmion, in T. Heywood, Descr. H.M. Ship (1638), To Author A 3 b. Now for a Homer whose immortall Verse In well lim’d lines, and raptures might rehearse The bravery of this Vessell.
1652. F. Grevil’s Sidney, Ep. Ded. Both your Bloud and Vertues do so strongly Intitle you to this well-limb’d Piece.
1654. R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 468. It is the part of Poetry to have a judicious Reception of a well-lim’d Notion.
