ppl. a. (In various senses of TRIM v.)
1667. Dryden & Dk. Newcastle, Sir M. Mar-all, III. (1668), 26. A Woman’s in a sad condition, that has nothing to trust to, but a Perriwig above, and a well-trim’d shoe below.
1728. Gardiner, trans. Rapin Of Gardens, II. (ed. 3), 90. When with a low and well-trim’d Head They [sc. cypresses] circling round adorn some flow’ry Mead.
1825. Scott, Talism., xxiii. The mass of hair (now limited to a well-trimmed beard).
1840. Dickens, Old C. Shop, ix. A well-trimmed lamp. Ibid. (1842), Amer. Notes, v. The well-trimmed lawns and green meadows of home are not there.
1856. Kane, Arctic Expl., I. xxx. 412. His coil of walrus-hide, a well-trimmed line of many fathoms’ length.
