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well-turned, ppl. a.
[turn v. 4, 5.]
1. Skilfully turned or rounded.
[a1700Evelyn Diary 22 July 1670, The arches of the cellars beneath are well turn'd by Mr. Samuel the architect.] 1725Pope Odyss. xviii. 77 His nervous thighs By just degrees like well-turn'd columns rise. 1811J. Milner Eccles. Archit. Eng. Pref. p. xv, The well-turned arches of the intercolumniations. 1813Vancouver Agric. Devon 117 The slice, gradually ascending along this well-turned plate, operates with an equal friction on its whole surface.
2. Of the body or limbs: Symmetrically shaped or rounded.
1616B. Jonson Devil an Ass ii. vi, To play with this smooth, round, And well torn'd chin, as with the Billyard ball. 1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2281/4 A large well turn'd Chesnut,..15 hands. 1693Dryden Ovid's Met. i. 670 Her well-turn'd Neck he view'd. 1728Ramsay Bonny Kate iv, How straight, how well-turn'd and genteel, are Her limbs! 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies 29 They are a well-made race,..with well-turned thighs and legs. 1886J. Corbett Fall of Asgard ii. 66 Her well-turned form, so girlish and dainty still.
3. Of speech: Neatly finished, felicitously expressed.
1623B. Jonson in Shaks. Wks. To Mem. Author 68 In his well torned, and true-filed lines. 1668Dryden Of Dram. Poesie 59 The labour which is requir'd to well turn'd and polish'd Rhyme. 1714Addison Spect. No. 556 ⁋3, I made a Speech consisting of about half a Dozen well-turned Periods. 1773Boswell Tour Hebrides 22 Oct. (1785) 431 It contains a just and well-turned compliment to my illustrious friend. 1888Burgon Twelve Good Men I. 41 Enshrining the friend's name in a note, commonly with the addition of..some well-turned phrase.
†4. Of the mind: Having a good bent, well disposed. Obs.
1798S. Lee Canterb. T., Young Lady's T. II. 354 Nothing then remains, even in minds well turned, but a sense of mutual duty.
5. well turned-out: smartly dressed, well-groomed.
1903[see classy a.]. 1919E. P. Oppenheim Strange Case Mr. Jocelyn Thew i. ii. 17 A very distinguished-looking and exceedingly well-turned-out caller. 1976G. Ewart No Fool i. 20 Well-turned-out were the waisted women. |