Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Eld

Eld (eld) , adjective

[Anglo-Saxon eald.]

Old. [Obsolete] — Chaucer

Eld , noun

[Anglo-Saxon yldu, yldo, eldo, old age, from ald, eald, old. See Old.]

1.
Age; esp., old age. [Obsolete or Archaic]
As sooth is said, eelde hath great avantage. — Chaucer
Great Nature, ever young, yet full of eld. — Spenser
2.
Old times; former days; antiquity. [Poetic]
Astrologers and men of eld. — Longfellow

Eld , intransitive verb

To age; to grow old. [Obsolete]

Eld , transitive verb

To make old or ancient. [Obsolete]
Time, that eldeth all things. — Rom. of R