ELD

a. n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Old. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2.
n.

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.

3.
n.

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

4.
v.

To age; to grow old. [Obs.]

5.
v.

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


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