beild

English

Alternative forms

• beeld, bield

Etymology

Probably from the same root as build.

Noun

beild (plural beilds)

1. (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.

References

• “beild”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Dible, Lebid, belid, bield, biled

Middle English

Noun

beild

1. Alternative form of belde