limbed, a.
(lɪmd)
Also 4–5 i-limed, ilymed.
[f. limb n. + -ed2.]
Having limbs. Nearly always with adv. or adj. prefixed, as well-limbed, straight-limbed.
| c 1320 Cast. Love 624 Hose now I-seȝe heere A child þat riht I-limed nere, Þat þreo ffeet and þreo honden beere. 1412–20 Lydg. Chron. Troy i. v, So well Ilymed and compact by measure Well growe on heyght and of good stature. 1555 Eden Decades 105 Thinhabitantes are..well lymmed and proportioned. 1598 R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. i. xiii. (1622) 26 The Cheruscians being a great limmed people. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xviii. (1623) 898 Little of stature, ill-limmed, and crook-backed. 1667 Milton P.L. vii. 456 Innumerous living Creatures, perfet formes, Limb'd and full grown. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 231 Strong limb'd and stout, and to the Wars inclin'd. 1748 Anson's Voy. iii. v. 339 These Indians are a bold well-limbed people. 1835 W. Irving Tour Prairies 173 It was a colt about two years old, well grown, finely limbed. 1873 Black Pr. Thule (1874) 4 A man..straight-limbed, and sinewy in frame. 1899 Echo 9 Mar. 1/4 Every reader of Dickens remembers the frail ex-prisoner of the Bastille, white-haired and feeble-limbed. 1954 T. Gunn Fighting Terms 44 My hate throbs yet but I am feeble-limbed. |