• Eild

    Origin

    See eld.

    Full definition of eild

    Noun

    eild

    1. (obsolete or dialectal, Scotland) Age.
      • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso:
        • Book III, xxxv:
      • His age was full of puissance and might,
      • Two sons he had to guard his noble eild.
        • Book IV, xliv:
      • Mine uncle govern'd in my tender eild.
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