2. Verb. (third-person singular of bield#Etymology_2 bield) ¹
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Definition of Bields
1. bield [v] - See also: bield
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bields
Literary usage of Bields
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"While one scene discloses the young shepherds by 'craigy bields' and ' crystal
springs/ or presents Peggy and Jenny on the bleaching-green— A trotting ..."
2. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by William Baxter by William Baxter (1843)
"That bloom by mountain streamlets 'mid the heather, Or into clusters, 'neath the
hazels, gather— Or where by hoary rocks you make your bields, And sweetly ..."
3. Poems and Songs by James Currie, Charles Rogers (1883)
"... Let's " bow tae ilk buss noo that bields us.'1 We'll crawl tae oor maisters
an' say as they say ; Their wisdom we'll praise, 'tis the far safest way; ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius: In the Courts of Queen's by Frederick Augustus Carrington, Andrew Valentine Kirwan, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1845)
"The plaintiff had two "bields," of one of which the defendant TW, for some cause
which did not appear, was desirous to get possession : and it appeared, ..."
5. Cases for Analysis: Materials for Practice in Reading and Stating Reported by Eugene Wambaugh (1894)
"The plaintiff had two " bields," of one of which the defendant TW, for some cause
which did not appear, was desirous to get possession ; and it appeared, ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1870)
"The plaintiff had two "bields," of one of which the defendant TW, for some cause
which did not appear, was desirous lo get possession: and it appeared, ..."
7. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1887)
"Boo to the bus' that bields ye— E'en tho' yer back be at the wa'. When things
are no as they hae been, ..."
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