[syn: age, eld]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Eld \Eld\, v. i.
To age; to grow old. [Obs.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Eld \Eld\, v. t.
To make old or ancient. [Obs.]
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Time, that eldeth all things. --Rom. of R.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Eld \Eld\ ([e^]ld), a. [AS. eald.]
Old. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Eld \Eld\, n. [AS. yldu, yldo, eldo, old age, fr. ald, eald,
old. See Old.]
1. Age; esp., old age. [Obs. or Archaic]
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As sooth is said, eelde hath great avantage.
--Chaucer.
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Great Nature, ever young, yet full of eld.
--Spenser.
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2. Old times; former days; antiquity. [Poetic]
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Astrologers and men of eld. --Longfellow.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
eld
n 1: 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]
2: 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]