ppl. a. a. Firmly implanted. b. Well furnished with roots.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XII. 138. Two high hill-bred Okes, Well rooted in the binding earth.
1627. May, Lucan, I. A 3 b. And round about well rooted Trees doe grow.
1707. Mortimer, Husb., 4. A well rooted Set.
1842. Loudon, Suburban Hort., 253. The advantage of taking off cuttings in spring is, that they can be well rooted before winter.
fig. 1876. Hardy, Ethelberta, xxxiii. Well-rooted local people.
1878. [see ROOTED 2 fig.].
