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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