ppl. a. Melodious, in good tune.
1535. Coverdale, Ps. cl. 5. Prayse him vpon the welltuned cymbals.
1588. Shaks., Tit. A., II. iii. 18. The Hounds, Replying shrilly to the well tun’d Hornes.
1591–5. Spenser, Colin Clout, 418. That well tuned song Which late he sung vnto a scornfull lasse.
1600. Shaks., Sonn., viii. 5. The true concord of well tuned sounds.
1653. H. More, Antid. Atheism, II. viii. (1712), 62. A Pack of well-tuned Hounds.
1660. J. Brookbank (title), The Well-tuned Organ.
1844. Mrs. Browning, Drama of Exile, 1212. What I see well-formed or hear well-tuned.
transf. 1613–6. W. Browne, Brit. Past., I. ii. 41. Whose well-tun’d eares, chast-obiect-louing eyne Ne’er heard nor saw the workes of Aretine.
