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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |