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† 1. Of the human or animal frame: Well-knit; firmly and compactly built. Also with together.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, II. xxii. 392. Men of my stature, well-trust, short and tough.
1639. T. de Grey, Compl. Horsem., I. iv. (1656), 37. He must have … a well-trussed together Body.
1741. Compl. Family-Piece, II. i. 304. The Tumbler … is a well-truss’d Dog.
2. Securely tied in a bundle.
1633. Herbert, Temple, Ch.-porch, xxiv. Man is a shop of rules, a well truss’d pack, Whose every parcell under-writes a law.
