Hypertext Webster Gateway: "eld"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Eld \Eld\, v. t.
To make old or ancient. [Obs.]
Time, that eldeth all things. --Rom. of R.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Eld \Eld\, v. i.
To age; to grow old. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Eld \Eld\, a. [AS. eald.]
Old. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Eld \Eld\, n. [AS. yldu, yldo, eldo, old age, fr. ald, eald,
old. See {Old}.]
1. Age; esp., old age. [Obs. or Archaic]
As sooth is said, eelde hath great avantage.
--Chaucer.
Great Nature, ever young, yet full of eld.
--Spenser.
2. Old times; former days; antiquity. [Poetic]
Astrologers and men of eld. --Longfellow.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
eld
n 1: 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}]
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