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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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BIELDLESS, BEILDLESS, adj. Without shelter.Ags. 1879 G. W. Donald Poems, Ballads and Songs 9/2:
Shieldless and bieldless Ye'll find the naked plain.Per. after 1875 J. Paul in Harp of Perthsh. (ed. Ford 1893) 364:
Though far frae hame I sune may be, ower beildless tilth an' tide.m.Sc. 1994 John Murray in James Robertson A Tongue in Yer Heid 102:
Faces o seers an sair saints, ootcast on bieldless road girt skerries, speirin up at heiven thair lane, ettlin fer erthlie remeid.
