ppl. a. Furnished with, mounted on, drawn by a good horse or horses.
1387. Trevisa, Higden, VII. 359. I and þow be here allone, iliche wel i-horsed and i-wepened.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VIII. xvi. 2484. Twenty thousande men Weil armyt and weil horssit.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, I. x. 48. Vlfyus and Brastias … rode forth wel horsed and wel armed.
a. 1533. [see HORSED 1].
1656. Cowley, Pindar. Odes, To New Year, ii. His well-horst Troops, the Months, and Days, and Hours.
1666. Earl Orrery, St. Lett. (1742), 200. Nothing now being talked of but war, whoever has money will not spare it to be well horsed.
1884. [see HORSED 1 b].
1899. W. E. Cairnes, in Scribner’s Mag., XXV. 66/2. The smart and well-horsed army service wagon.
1901. Scotsman, 3 April, 8/2. The force was well-armed and well-horsed.
