From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Eld \Eld\, v. i.
To age; to grow old. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Eld \Eld\, v. t.
To make old or ancient. [Obs.]
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Time, that eldeth all things. --Rom. of R.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Eld \Eld\ ([e^]ld), a. [AS. eald.]
Old. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Eld \Eld\, n. [AS. yldu, yldo, eldo, old age, fr. ald, eald,
old. See Old.]
1. Age; esp., old age. [Obs. or Archaic]
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As sooth is said, eelde hath great avantage.
--Chaucer.
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Great Nature, ever young, yet full of eld.
--Spenser.
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2. Old times; former days; antiquity. [Poetic]
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Astrologers and men of eld. --Longfellow.
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