bield
Americannoun
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of bield
1400–50; late Middle English ( Scots ) beld ( e ), beild, apparently to be identified with Middle English beild courage, power, aid, Old English bieldo boldness; akin to Gothic balthei confidence. See bold
Example Sentences
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Ye lie on your wame a bittie in the bield of this wood, and ye tell me that ye've cuist off these Frasers and Macgregors.
And now the sun wheeled round his westering car And led still evening on: from every field Came thronging the fat flocks to bield and byre.
From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus
The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High sheltering woods and wa's maun shield But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble field, Unseen, alane!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High shelt’ring woods and wa’s maun shield But thou, beneath the random bield O’ clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
Two mottos; round the top of the crest, Wood-notes wild: at the bottom of the shield, in the usual place, Better a wee bush than nae bield.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
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