a. Also 4–5 i-limed, ilymed. [f. LIMB sb. + -ED2.] Having limbs. Nearly always with adv. or adj. prefixed, as well-limbed, straight-limbed.

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c. 1320.  Cast. Love, 624. Hose now I-seȝe heere A child þat riht I-limed nere, Þat þreo ffeet and þreo honden beere.

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1412–20.  Lydg., Chron. Troy, I. v. So well Ilymed and compact by measure Well growe on heyght and of good stature.

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1555.  Eden, Decades, 105. Thinhabitantes are … well lymmed and proportioned.

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1598.  Grenewey, Tacitus’ Ann., I. xiii. (1622), 26. The Cheruscians being a great limmed people.

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1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xviii. (1623), 898. Little of stature, ill-limmed, and crook-backed.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., VII. 456. Innumerous living Creatures, perfet formes, Limb’d and full grown.

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1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., II. 231. Strong limb’d and stout, and to the Wars inclin’d.

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1748.  Anson’s Voy., III. v. 339. These Indians are a bold well-limbed people.

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1835.  W. Irving, Tour Prairies, 173. It was a colt about two years old, well grown, finely limbed.

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1873.  Black, Pr. Thule (1874), 4. A man … straight-limbed, and sinewy in frame.

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1875.  The Era, 12 Dec., 11/2. Mousta (Mr G. W. Anson), a humpbacked, crook-limbed, one-eyed dwarf.

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