a. Having a good tone, in various senses: see TONED.
c. 1460, 1742. [see TONED 1 a, 1 b].
1771. C. Burney, Pres. St. Mus. France & Italy (1773), 145. The voice, which was a woman’s, was well toned.
1827. Earl Mount-Edgcumbe, Mus. Remin. (ed. 2), 74. David … was … the first tenor of his time, possessing a powerful and well-toned voice.
1874. H. H. Cole, Catal. Ind. Art S. Kens. Mus., 213. Harmonious and well-toned colouring.
1879. H. Spencer, Data of Ethics, x. § 64. 176. The … consequent discolouration, caused in a person of lax tissues by a blow which leaves in well-toned tissues no trace.
