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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.

Older; more aged, or existing longer. Let the elder men among us emulate their own earlier deeds. Jowett (Thucyd. )

The berrylike drupe of the elder. That of the Old World elder (Sambucus nigra) and that of the American sweet elder (S. Canadensis) are sweetish acid, and are eaten as a berry or made into wine.

Somewhat old; elderly. [R.]

Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.

Made of elder. [Obs.] He would discharge us as boys do eldern guns. Marston.

The state of being older; seniority. "Paternity an eldership." Sir W. Raleigh.

Danewort.

ving first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder. "My lady's eldest son." Shak. Their eldest historians are of suspected credit. Bp. Stillingfleet. Eldest hand (Card Playing), the player on the dealer's left hand. R. A. Proctor.

Fuel. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh. [Local, Eng.]

The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.…

To, in, or on the field. "We drove afield." Milton. How jocund did they drive their team afield! Gray.

Same as Beild. Fairfax.

imp. & p. p. of Behold.

Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire. To show the beldam daughters of her daughter. Shak.

A shelter. Same as Beild. [Scot.]

ot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city.

See Butt weld, under Butt.

To unite by a butt weld.