eld verb intrans. [ɛld] Long obsolete exc. dial.
[Old English (West Saxon) ealdian, from eald OLD adjective; cf. Old Frisian aldia, Old High German altēn, Gothic us)alÞan.]
Grow old.

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eld adjective. [ɛld] arch. & poet. E17.
[from the noun: see OLD adjective.]
Old, aged.

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eld noun. [ɛld]
[Old English (Anglian) eldu, (West Saxon) ieldu = Old Frisian elde, Old Saxon eldi, Old High German elti, Old Norse elli, from Germanic: cf. OLD noun¹, noun².]
1. The age or time of life which a person has reached. obsolete exc. dial. OE.

2. An age of the world, an era. OE-E16.

3. Old age. arch. & poet. OE.
■ C. Kingsley His beard was white with eld.
b. Old people; old men; senate, aristocracy. OE-L16.
c. An old person; an old man. poet. L18.

4. Conventional or legal age; a person's majority. ME-E16.

5. Duration of existence; time as a wearing or destroying agency. LME-M18.

6. The old days, antiquity; people of former times. arch. & poet. LME.
■ Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor The superstitious idle-headed eld Receiv'd, and did deliver to our age, This tale of Herne the Hunter.

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