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1. Seated on a good horse.
1595. Shaks., John, V. vi. 42. These Lincolne-Washes haue deuoured them, My selfe, well mounted, hardly haue escap’d.
1630. Capt. J. Smith, True Trav., vii. 12. Turbashaw with a noise of Howboyes entred the fields well mounted and armed.
1633. G. Herbert, Temple, Dotage, i. Shadows well-mounted, dreams in a career.
1708. Boyer, Siege Toulon, II. 18. A Trooper well mounted and armed.
1818. Scott, Br. Lamm., ix. He was accosted by a well-mounted stranger.
1841. Dickens, Barn. Rudge, x. He was well-mounted upon a sturdy chestnut cob.
† 2. ? Having a good bodily carriage, well-developed, ‘well set up.’ Also fig. Obs.
1607. Beaum. & Fl., Woman-hater, IV. ii. A handsome, young, fair enough, and well mounted wench.
1621. Fletcher, Wild-goose Chase, II. ii. Of a small body, she has a mind well mounted.
3. Fully equipped, well-appointed.
1846. Mrs. Gore, Engl. Char. (1852), 11. Sir Gordon Mosley and his white cravat are essential portions of every well mounted dinner-table.
1853. Grote, Greece, II. lxxxviii. XI. 495. After all the wants of a well-mounted peace-establishment were satisfied.
4. Skilfully fixed or fitted.
1889. Hardwicke’s Sci.-Gossip, XXV. 47/2. Offered in exchange for two well-mounted slides, or other unmounted micro material.
