Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make bold; give courage or confidence to.
- To defend; protect; shelter.
- To be bold or confident; grow bold or strong.
- noun Boldness; courage; confidence; feeling of security.
- noun Resource; help; relief; means of help or relief; support; sustenance.
- noun Shelter; refuge; protection.
- noun A place of shelter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. A shelter. Same as
beild . - transitive verb Scot. To shelter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
boldness ,courage ;confidence ; a feeling ofsecurity ,assurance . - noun
resource ,help ,relief ; a means ofhelp orrelief ;support ;sustenance . - noun
shelter ,refuge orprotection . - noun A
place ofshelter , arefuge . - verb transitive To make
bold , givecourage orconfidence to. - verb transitive To
defend ,protect orshelter .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sky streaked with purple, grove and craggy 'bield',
EPISTLE TO SIR GEORGE HOWLAND BEAUMONT, BART. FROM THE SOUTH-WEST COAST OR CUMBERLAND 1811 1888
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On the evening before the tragedy came to light -- trifles are always remembered after the catastrophe -- a boy, returning along the margin of the mere, passed him by seated on a prostrate trunk of a tree, under the "bield" of a rock, counting silver money.
Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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"Here's your daddie, bairns," said the gudewife ganging till the door; but i 'place o' their daddie, a tall chiel wrappit i 'a big cloak, rushed like a fire flaught into the bield, and drappit doun on the sunkie ewest the ingle droghling and coghling.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various
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Sae speaking, he sped rath frae the bield, and was sune lost i 'the glunch shadows o' the mirk night.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various
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Where the bield could not shelter the weary and weak,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Sae saying, I gared him climb a rape by whilk he gat abune the riggin o 'the bield, then steeking to the door thro' whilk he gaed, I jimp had trailed doun the rape, when in rinned twa red coat chiels, who couping ilka ane i 'their gait begun to touzle out the ben, and the de'il gaed o'er Jock Wabster.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various
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Abune Hangin 'Shaw, in the bield o' the Black Hill, there's a bit enclosed grund wi 'an iron yett; and it seems, in the auld days, that was the kirkyaird o' Ba'weary, and consecrated by the Papists before the blessed licht shone upon the kingdom.
Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897
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No sooner said than done; nor was I long under the bield of a hillock before she appeared at the inn door, looked here and there, and (seeing nobody) set out by a path that led directly seaward, and by which I followed her.
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Ye lie on your wame a bittie in the bield of this wood, and ye tell me that ye've cuist off these Frasers and Macgregors.
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The three friends sought the _bield_ of the low wall old Edinburgh boys remember well, and sometimes miss now, as they struggle with the stout west-wind.
Stories of Childhood Various 1885
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