ppl. a. [f. CHAIN + -ED.]
1. From the vb.: Made fast, bound, closed, connected, united, with (or as with) a chain; fettered.
1613. Chapman, Rev. Bussy d’Amb., IV. Chained shot.
1637. Rutherford, Lett., cciv. (1881), 345. He hath left me a chained man.
1660. Ingelo, Bentiv. & Urania (1682), II. 181. [The assailants] set upon the chain’d-bridge.
1684. Lond. Gaz., No. 1979/1. Chained Bullets made at Brescia.
1816. Byron, Parisina, xiii. While Hugo raised his chained hands.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., II. § 3. 244. In both liquids and solids we have the molecules closely packed, and more or less chained by the force of cohesion.
2. From the sb.: Fitted, provided or adorned with a chain or chains.
1552. Huloet, Chayned, torquatus.
1627. Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., ii. 8. In great ships they use chained pumps.
a. 1796. Burns, Meg o’ the Mill. A fine pacing horse wi’ a clear chained bridle.
1871. Sala, Mrs. Mellor’s Diammonds, in Belgravia, June, 430. [He] was highly curled, oiled, ringed, chained, pinned, and locketed.
3. Of lightning: Having the form of a chain or jointed line.
1859. All Y. Round, No. 17. 400. Lightning … now and then ‘chained’ or ‘forked’ was visible.
