ppl. a. [WELL adv. 28.] Plentifully supplied or moistened with water.

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c. 1450.  Bk. Curtasye, 438, in Babees Bk. Litere … Wele watered, I-wrythen, be craft y-trode.

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1611.  Bible, Gen. xiii. 10. Lot … beheld all the plaine of Iordane, that it was well watered euery where.

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1621.  [see SEATED ppl. a. 2].

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1784.  Cowper, Task, I. 323. The Ouse, dividing the well-water’d land.

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1867.  Morris, Jason, III. 170. A plain well-watered, set with trees.

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1919.  E. Armstrong, in Q. Rev., April, 347. The stirring population, industrial and maritime, of well-wooded and well-watered Asturias and Galicia.

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