beild
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Probably from the same root as build.
Noun
beild (plural beilds)
- (Scotland, archaic) A place of shelter; protection; refuge.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book II, lxxxiv:
- This is our beild, the blust'ring winds to shun.
- 1786, Robert Burns, To a Mountain Daisy:
- The random beild o' clod or stane.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book II, lxxxiv:
References
- “beild”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
beild
- alternative form of belde