well-ˈwatered, ppl. a.
[well adv. 28.]
Plentifully supplied or moistened with water.
| c 1450 Bk. Curtasye 438 in Babees Bk., Litere..Wele watered, I-wrythen, be craft y-trode. 1611 Bible Gen. xiii. 10 Lot..beheld all the plaine of Iordane, that it was well watered euery where. 1621 [see seated ppl. a. 2]. 1784 Cowper Task i. 323 The Ouse, dividing the well-water'd land. 1867 Morris Jason iii. 170 A plain well-watered, set with trees. 1919 Q. Rev. Apr. 347 The stirring population..of well-wooded and well-watered Asturias and Galicia. |