ppl. a. [f. WOOD sb.1 or v.2 + -ED.] Furnished with wood or woods; covered with growing trees; abounding in woods or forests. (a) predicative, in ppl. construction; in later use giving rise to sense 2 of WOOD v.2, of which it may be taken as the pa. pple. Usually with adv.
1605. Camden, Rem., 1. Isle of Britaine … aboundant in pasture,… plentifully wooded.
1625. Massinger, New Way, IV. i. It is well wooded, and well watered,—the acres Fertile and rich.
a. 1700. Evelyn, Diary, Introd. His estate was … well wooded and full of timber.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 141. The land is flat, marshy and wooded with pines, birch, larch and willows.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xii. III. 137. The neighbourhood of Kenmare was then richly wooded.
fig. a. 1616. Beaum. & Fl., Bonduca, I. ii. The hills are wooded with their partizans. And all the valleys overgrown with darts, As moors are with rank rushes.
(b) in attrib. construction, preceding the sb.
1782. Pennant, Journ. Chester to Lond., 292. Some pretty pieces of water, winding along a fine wooded dell.
1821. Scott, Kenilw., iii. In a wooded park … was situated the ancient mansion.
1920. ‘Al Khanzir,’ in Blackw. Mag., Jan., 107/2. It [Ganges Canal] runs straight as a die between its wooded banks.
