Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch form of
eld . - Not giving milk: as, an eild cow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Age.
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- noun Scotland
Age .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Out spake a dame in wrinkled eild [old age] 'O guid [of good] advisement comes nae ill.
Country Lassie 1999
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Ere eild wi 'his blatters had warsled me doun, vol. ii.,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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An 'the wrinkles o' eild tell "his simmer is past."
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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And tho 'wi' crazy eild I'm sair forfairn [old age, sorely worn-out]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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In vain I say unto myself that this must be a mere fantasy of mine; I, who am marked with the 'frost of eild,' who will soon be -- let me see -- seven-and-thirty years old.
Olive A Novel Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856
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YELD, YELL, EILD, _adj. _ a cow is said to be _eild_ when she is giving no milk.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. Alexander Leighton 1837
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Notwithstanding these mutual good oiE - ces between the King and the republic of Gene - va, Henry did not break with the Duke of Savoy; but, oil the contrary, the Count of Garmare, en - voy from this Prince, having taken leave of the King at Fontainebleauy. the latter eild of Octo -
Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the ... Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Pierre Mathurin de L'Ecluse des Logus 1812
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t hypocrify is a difeafe in the vitals that will eild in ith.
An Illustration of the Doctrines of the Christian Religion: With Respect to Faith and Practice ... 1773
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