▪ I. eild, a. Sc.
(iːld)
[? var. of yeld a.]
Of a cow: Not giving milk, from being in calf, or from age.
| 1822 W. J. Napier Pract. Store-farming 252 The gimmers giving milk will consume more grass than when eild. 1837 Lockhart Scott (1839) VI. 21 No man could guess at how large a price Constable had estimated his eild kye. |
▪ II. eild
var. eld, Obs., old age, eld v. to grow old.