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Quotation dates: 1375-1513, 1569-1586
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Held(e, Heild, v.1 Also: heyld. [ME. heelde, heild, helde(n, OE. hieldan, heldan. In Sc., chiefly in early texts.]
1. a. tr. To tilt or turn down. b. intr. To bend down or incline, to swing up, to heel over. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvii. 601
The cop he heldit done — 1456 Hay II. 8/14.
Quhill my hors … heldit to drynk 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. iii. 79.
Now sank scho [sc. the carvel] law, now hie to heuin vpheildit 1513 Id. Æn. v. xiv. 60.
This god … as that the schip gan helde Ourburd him kest
2. fig. To incline with adherence or submission. 1375 Barb. v. 153.
The queyn & othir ma, That till his party war heldand 1375 Ib. viii. 14.
Of Cwnyngame the mast party He gert helde till his senȝory 1375 Ib. vi. 353 (E).
It wald till hardyment heyld haly, With thi away war foly c1450-2 Howlat 427.
Thar lordschipe … , That bene cot armouris of eild, Tharin to harrald I held c1420 Wynt. v. 2236 (W).
Sum with tretis, and sum with aw, He gert thaim till him heild and draw a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS clxxii. 41.
Thane, hart, heild nocht ane hair, Nor in thi prisone ply
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