eld

eld

[eld]
noun Archaic.
1.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English elde, Old English eldo, ieldo, derivative of (e)ald old; see world

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eld (ɛld) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  old age
2.  olden days; antiquity
 
[Old English eldu; related to Old Norse elli; see old]

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Eld is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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eld
poetic or archaic form of old; in some cases from O.E. eald.
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ELD
electroluminescent display
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