▪ I. † curbed, ppl. a.1
Also courbed.
[f. curb v.1]
Bent, bowed, curved.
| [c 1430 Lydg. Bochas i. xx. (1554) 36 b, Thing y{supt} is courbyd or wrong..To make it seme as it went vpright. c 1450 Merlin 261 Longe and courbed, and brode sholderes and leene for age.] 1541 R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg., The lyuer..is of fygure as of the moone, curbed towarde the rybbes. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 678 (R.) By crooked and curbed lines. 1646 G. Daniel Poems Wks. 1878 I. 50 Her haire vndrest, Like Adders on her Curbed Shoulders falls. 1691 Ray Creation ii. (1704) 231 Though the Course of the Sun be curbed towards the Tropicks. |
▪ II. curbed, ppl. a.2
(kɜːbd)
[f. curb n. and v.2]
1. Furnished with or having a curb.
| 1675 Lond. Gaz. No. 975/4 An old curbed Bridle. 1695 Ibid. 3048/4 Kirb'd Bridle. 1847 Youatt Horse i. 10 The severe and often cruel curbed-bit. |
b. curbed roof = curb-roof.
| 1866 Intell. Observ. No. 57. 178 Zinc-work on the curbed roofs. |
2. fig. Restrained, checked.
| 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. v. 131 The Fift Harry, from curb'd License pluckes The muzzle of restraint. 1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. xi. 157 Stephen..owed his curbed authority to the constant rebellion of his Barons. |