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▪ I. elding1 Obs. exc. dial.|ˈɛldɪŋ|
Also eilding, eyldynge, eldin, elden(e, eldinge.
[a. ON. eldíng, f. eldr fire. Cf. Da. ilding.]
Fuel.
a1300Cursor M. 3164 Ysaac þe elding broght. c1440Promp. Parv. 136 Eyldynge, or fowayle, focale. 1580Kirton-in-Lindsey Ch. Acc. in Proc. Soc. Antiq. Ser. ii. II. 387 Item for Eldene xiid. 1648Ibid. in Peacock N.-W. Linc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) To blind Sutton wife for elding. 1705Inv. ibid., Eldin..and stocks and blocks 10s. 1790A. Wilson Elegy on Unfort. Tailor, He'd sit, And ilka wee the eldin hit, And gab fu' trimly. 1816Scott Antiq. xi, ‘Wadna ye be glad to buy a dram wi't, to be eilding and claise?’ 1857E. Waugh Lanc. Life 140 Up blazed the inflammable eilding with a crackling sound.
▪ II. ˈelding2 Sc. Obs. rare.
[f. eld v. + -ing2.]
Old age.
a1600Maitland Poems 193 (Jam.) Elding is end of erthlie glie. |