Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See bield.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Scot. & Prov. Eng. A place of shelter; protection; refuge.

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  • noun Scotland, UK, dialect A place of shelter; protection; refuge.

Etymologies

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Probably from the same root as build.

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Examples

  • As to our knowledge of each other, — if ye ken what I am, ye ken what usage it was made me what I am; and, whatever you may think, I would not change states with the proudest of the oppressors that hae driven me to tak the heather-bush for a beild.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • Shaw in the beild of the Black Hill, Balweary in the vale of Dule, 'sent a' cauld grue 'along my bones.

    The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1895

  • As to our knowledge of each other, --- if ye ken what I am, ye ken what usage it was made me what I am; and, whatever you may think, I would not change states with the proudest of the oppressors that hae driven me to tak the heather-bush for a beild.

    Rob Roy 1887

  • Siloam 's fa'en upo 'my heid: -- what does he, the first thing, but turn his ain auld freen's oot o' the sma beild they had!

    The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

  • If the sparrow-life must end, surely a wee bush is better than nae beild.

    Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

  • --- neither beild nor shelter; sae he e'en pu'd the bonnet ower his brow, belted the broadsword to his side, took to the brae-side, and became a broken man. ''

    Rob Roy 1887

  • These evil showers make the low bush better than no beild. "

    The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

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