ppl. a. † a. Bought at a fair price; worth the price paid. (See WELL adv. 6 d.) b. Valiantly won. (Cf. DEAR-BOUGHT.)
1480. Cely Papers (Camden), 56. Sum standardes of mayll whelbhowte.
1576. Ded. Verses, in Turberv., Venerie.
| A Booke well bought, God graunt it so be solde, | |
| For sure such Bookes, are better worth than golde. |
1811. Scott, Don Roderick, III. xiii. For never, upon gory battle-ground, With conquest’s well-bought wreath were braver victors crown’d!
