Category:Eld

Eld, a. Etym: [AS. eald.]

Defn: Old. [Obs.] Chaucer.

eld Eld, n. Etym: [AS. yldu, yldo, eldo, old age, fr. ald, eald, old. See Old.]

1. Age; esp., old age. [Obs. or Archaic] As sooth is said, eelde hath great avantage. Chaucer. Great Nature, ever young, yet full of eld. Spenser.

2. Old times; former days; antiquity. [Poetic] Astrologers and men of eld. Longfellow.

eld Eld, v. i.

Defn: To age; to grow old. [Obs.]

eld Eld, v. t.

Defn: To make old or ancient. [Obs.] Time, that eldeth all things. Rom. of R.