Word Meanings - ELDERN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Made of elder. He would discharge us as boys do eldern guns. Marston.

Related words: (words related to ELDERN)

• ELDERLY
  Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
• ELDERBERRY
  The berrylike drupe of the elder. That of the Old World elder and that of the American sweet elder are sweetish acid, and are eaten as a berry or made into wine.
• ELDER
  1. Older; more aged, or existing longer. Let the elder men among us emulate their own earlier deeds. Jowett 2. Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to Ant: younger, and now
• ELDERN
  Made of elder. He would discharge us as boys do eldern guns. Marston.
• WOULDINGNESS
  Willingness; desire.
• WOULD-BE
  ' (as, a would-be poet.
• DISCHARGER
  One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
• ELDERWORT
  Danewort.
• WOULD
  Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will. Note: Would was formerly used also as the past participle of Will. Right as our Lord hath would. Chaucer.
• ELDERISH
  Somewhat old; elderly.
• DISCHARGE
  1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge
• WOULDING
  Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity. Hammond.
• ELDERSHIP
  1. The state of being older; seniority. "Paternity an eldership." Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Office of an elder; collectively, a body of elders.
• DISELDER
  To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder. Fuller.
• GELDER
  One who gelds or castrates.
• YIELDER
  One who yields. Shak.
• SKELDER
  To deceive; to cheat; to trick. B. Jonson.
• GUELDERROSE
  A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum , bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree. (more info) hence, D. Geldersche roos, G. Gelderische rose, F. rose de Gueldre,
• WIELDER
  One who wields or employs; a manager; a controller. A wielder of the great arm of the war. Milton.
• BRICKFIELDER
  Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney,
• GELDER-ROSE
  See GUELDER-ROSE
• FIELDER
  A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.