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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.

Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot 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.

To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder. [Obs.] Fuller.

A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.

One who gelds or castrates.

Same as Guelder-rose.

A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree.

A member of a religious sect founded by Kaspar von Schwenkfeld, a Silesian reformer who disagreed with Luther, especially on the deification of the body of Christ.

To deceive; to cheat; to trick. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The guelder-rose.

A manager; an actual occupant. [Ireland. Obs.] "The welder . . . who . . . lives miserably." Swift.

One who wields or employs; a manager; a controller. A wielder of the great arm of the war. Milton.

One who yields. Shak.

A senior; an elder; a predecessor. [Obs.] Junius and Andronicus . . . in Christianity . . . were his ancients. Hooker.