'Eld' definitions:
Definition of 'eld'
(from WordNet)
noun
A 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, eld, geezerhood]
noun
A time of 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, eld]
Definition of 'Eld'
From: GCIDE
- Eld \Eld\ ([e^]ld), a. [AS. eald.] Old. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Eld'
From: GCIDE
- Eld \Eld\, n. [AS. yldu, yldo, eldo, old age, fr. ald, eald, old. See Old.]
- 1. Age; esp., old age. [Obs. or Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- As sooth is said, eelde hath great avantage. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Great Nature, ever young, yet full of eld. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Old times; former days; antiquity. [Poetic] [1913 Webster]
- Astrologers and men of eld. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Eld'
From: GCIDE
- Eld \Eld\, v. i. To age; to grow old. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Eld'
From: GCIDE
- Eld \Eld\, v. t. To make old or ancient. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Time, that eldeth all things. --Rom. of R. [1913 Webster]