Cubit vs Eld - What's the difference?
cubit | eld |
A unit of linear measure, no longer in use, originally equal to the length of the forearm.
(anatomy) The ulna.
(rare, or, dialectal) One's age, age in years, period of life.
* 1868 , John Eadie, A Biblical cyclopædia :
* 1913 , Paulist Fathers, Catholic world :
(archaic, or, poetic) Old age, senility; an old person.
* 1912', Herbert Van Allen Ferguson, ''Rhymes of '''eld :
* 1912 , Arthur S. Way, translating Euripides, Medea , Heinemann 1946, p. 329:
* 1904 , , The Sun's Shame , II, lines 1-3
(archaic, or, poetic) Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time.
(archaic, or, poetic) Former ages, antiquity, olden times.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 38:
(obsolete) Old.
(intransitive, archaic, poetic, or, dialectal) To age, become or grow old.
(intransitive, archaic, or, poetic) To delay; linger.
(transitive, archaic, or, poetic) To make old, age.
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As nouns the difference between cubit and eld
is that cubit is a unit of linear measure, no longer in use, originally equal to the length of the forearm while eld is one's age, age in years, period of life.As an adjective eld is
old.As a verb eld is
to age, become or grow old.cubit
English
(wikipedia cubit)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* ell - a unit of 45 inches.eld
English
Alternative forms
* * (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Noun
(en-noun)- The experience of many years gave old men peculiar qualification for various offices; and elders, or men of a ripe or advanced eld or age, were variously employed under the Mosaic law.
- Promptly appeared a paragon, aged twenty-five or thereabouts, and exhibiting all the steadiness and serenity of advanced eld .
- The withered limbs of eld , the thin, gray hair [...]
- the alien wife / No crown of honour was as eld drew on.
- ''As some true chief of men, bowed down with stress
- ''Of life's disastrous eld , on blossoming youth
- ''May gaze, and murmur with self-pity and ruth, -
- Once adown the dewy way a youthful cavalier spurred with a maiden mounted behind him, swiftly passing out of sight, recalling to the imagination some romance of eld , when the damosel fled with her lover.
