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i. [BEAL, v.] ( Scotch.) * bēild ( Scotch ), * belde (0. Eng.), v.t. & i. [O. Sw. bylja = to build; Icel. bæli , byli = an abode.] [BELD, BUILD.] A. Trans.: To supply; to support. "This land is purd off fud that suld us beild." Wallace, xi. 43. (Jamie son.) B. In trans. To take refuge. "Beirdis beildit in bli e, brightest of ble." Gawan and Gal., iv. 12. (Jamie son.) bēild, bield ( Scotch ), * bēild, * beeld, * belde (0. Eng .), s. [From beild , v. (q.v.).] I. The act of sheltering or protecting; the state of being sheltered or protected. 1. Shelter, refuge; protection. "I will or bear, or be myself, thy shield; And, to defend thy life, will lose my own. This breast, this bosom soft, shall be thy beeld 'Gainst storms of arrows." Fairfax: Ta o , xvi. 49. "Fock maun bow to the bush that they seek beild frae."- Hogg : Brownie , ii. 197. 2. Support, stay, means of sustenance. "His fader erit and sew ane pece of feild, That he in hyregang held to be hys beild ." Doug.: Virgil, 429, 7. II. That which shelters or protects; a place of shelter. Specially 1. A house, a habitation. "My Jack, you're more than welcome to our deild; Heaven aid me lang to prove your faithfu' chield." Morrison: Poems , p. 177. 2. The shelter found by going to leeward. "In the beild of the dike" on that side of the wall that is free from the blast. ( Jamie son .) * bēild, a. [A.S. beald .] Bold. "Blyth bode it, and beild, but barrat or bost." Houlate, ii. 2, MS. (Jamie son.) "The crystal spring, and greenwood schaw, And beildy holes when en tempest blaw." Ramsay: Poems, ii. 485. * bēiled, pa. par. [? Corrupted from Eng. belayed, or connected with Scotch beild = shelter.] Naut.: Moored, secured by ropes or chains against danger (?). and the master aught to see the ship tyit and beiled, quhairthrow the ship and merch and ice may not be put to ony danger or skaith."- Ship Lawis. (Balfour's Pract., p. 618.)