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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Prob. from the same root as

build

, v. t.]

A place of shelter; protection; refuge.

[Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

[Also written

bield

and

beeld

The random

beild

o’ clod or stane.

Burns.

beild ‎(plural beilds)

(Scotland, Britain, dialect) A place of shelter; protection; refuge.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book II, lxxxiv:
  This is our beild, the blust'ring winds to shun.
- Robert Burns (1759-1796)
  The random beild o' clod or stane.