eld : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: eld	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for eld
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
eld n a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood" Synonym(s): old age, years, age, eld, geezerhood a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of school age"; "tall for his eld" Synonym(s): age, eld
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eld \Eld\, v. i. To age; to grow old. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eld \Eld\, v. t. To make old or ancient. [Obs.] Time, that eldeth all things. --Rom. of R.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eld \Eld\, a. [AS. eald.] Old. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eld \Eld\, n. [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.