wooded, ppl. a.
(ˈwʊdɪd)
[f. wood n.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. |
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n.| 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 Blackw. Mag. Jan. 107/2 The..Ganges Canal..runs straight as a die between its wooded banks. |