Etymology

Noun

1. One's age.
2. Old age.
   • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Sun's Shame, II, lines 1-3

     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, -

   • 1912, Arthur S. Way, translating Euripides, Medea, Heinemann 1946, p. 329:

     the alien wife / No crown of honour was as eld drew on.

3. Antiquity, olden times.

   Men were heroes in days of eld.

Noun

1. fire, a continued chemical exothermic reaction where a gaseous material reacts, and which creates enough heat to evaporate more combustible material
2. something set up as to burn, such as a campfire or a bonfire
3. fire; one of the classical, or basic, elements
4. fire; the in-flight projectiles from a gun or similar

Synonyms

• brasa
• bål
• vårdkase

• brand