beild

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English

Alternative forms

beeld, bield

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.

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

Alternative form of belde

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