Sc. and north. [f. WALE v.1 + -ED1.] Chosen, selected, picked. Cf. HAND-WALED.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 386. Walid wyne for to wete wantid þai none.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, VIII. 1219. Fyfty ladyis was in hyr cumpany, Wallyt off wit.
c. 1550. Rolland, Crt. Venus, I. 64. Thair waillit weid, and stature to descriue, I can not gif perfite affirmatiue.
c. 1640[?]. R. Sempill, Piper Kilbarchan, 43. He counted was a weil’d Wight-man.
1649. Rutherford, Lett. to Mrs. Gillespie, 14 Aug. Let not your heart say, it is an ill wailed dispensation.
1681. R. Fleming, Fulfilling Script., III. iii. (1726), 376. What choice and wailed instruments such were, who were thus called forth.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xviii. Gude and waled Christians they were too.
1828. Craven Gloss., Wealed, picked, chosen.
Waled, ppl. a.2: see WALE v.2
