thighed, a.
(θaɪd)
Also 7 thyght.
[f. thigh n. + -ed2.]
Having thighs (of a specified kind); often in parasynthetic combinations.
| c 1600 Harington Nugæ Ant. (1779) II. 181 To seeme..smaller wasted, and fuller thyght, then wee are. 1737 Bracken Farriery Impr. (1757) II. 38 If he [a horse] is Thigh'd down to the Hough, as the Expression is. 1860 Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. ix. iii. 220 Thighed and shouldered like the billows. 1881 R. Buchanan God & Man I. 160 Bee-hives, with gold thighed swarms hovering near them. |
| transf. c 1440 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 226 Diuerse kynde of vynys: The best is lyke a bosh ythied breef [cf. thigh n. 3, quot. c 1440]. |