well found

English

Adjective

well found (comparative more well found, superlative most well found)

1. Alternative form of well-found
   • 1801, The Naval ChronicleI:

     This, in difficulties of long duration, is more than they can effect ; and when it is effected, and ships of the line ride as long as well found merchant ships, in trim for riding, it is to be attributed entirely to the art of the mariner, and not to the inherent power of the retaining mediums.

   • 1822, Sketches of the Life and Correspondence of Nathanael Greene:

     Our army with inferior numbers, badly found, badly clothed, worse fed, "and newly levied, must have required good generalship to triumph over superior numbers well found, well clothed, well fed and veteran soldiers.

   • 1884, New York Supreme Court: Henry J Anderson, as Receiver of the Second National Bank of Scranton, against The Central Bank of the City of New York: Case On Appeal, page 20:

     His words were: “ Well, “Mr. Bigler, I hare got just the vessel you want: “ she is in first-rate condition ; well found in every“thing, tight and staunch: there is not a better “ vessel sails out of the port of New York than she “ is" (fol. 362).