Found 5 hits - Term: eld, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
eld \eld\ e^ld, a. as. eald.
old. obs. --chaucer.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
eld \eld\, n. as. yldu, yldo, eldo, old age, fr. ald, eald,
old. see old.
1. age; esp., old age. obs. or archaic
1913 webster
as sooth is said, eelde hath great avantage.
--chaucer.
1913 webster
great nature, ever young, yet full of eld.
--spenser.
1913 webster
2. old times; former days; antiquity. poetic
1913 webster
astrologers and men of eld. --longfellow.
1913 webster
see also:
old
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
eld \eld\, v. i.
to age; to grow old. obs.
1913 webster
- [4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
eld \eld\, v. t.
to make old or ancient. obs.
1913 webster
time, that eldeth all things. --rom. of r.
1913 webster
- [5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
eld
n 1: a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's
showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all";
"a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood"
syn: old age, years, age, geezerhood
2: a time in life usually defined in years at which some
particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of
school age"; "tall for his eld" syn: age
see also:
old age years age geezerhood
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