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Skilder :: Skilder (v. i.) To beg; to pilfer; to skelder.

Diselder :: Diselder (v. t.) To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder..

Elder :: Elder (a.) A person who, on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person occupying any office appropriate to such as have the experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church..

Over :: Over (n.) A certain number of balls (usually four) delivered successively from behind one wicket, after which the ball is bowled from behind the other wicket as many times, the fielders changing places..

Wielder :: Wielder (n.) One who wields or employs; a manager; a controller.

Eldership :: Eldership (n.) Office of an elder; collectively, a body of elders..

Matronal :: Matronal (a.) Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.

Elderly :: Elderly (a.) Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people..

Elderish :: Elderish (a.) Somewhat old; elderly.

Eldern :: Eldern (a.) Made of elder.

Elder :: Elder (n.) A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries..

Danewort :: Danewort (n.) A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.].

"""cover-point " :: Cover-point (n.) The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports point..

Porphyrogenitism :: Porphyrogenitism (n.) The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born..

Mulier :: Mulier (n.) Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder brother born of the same parents before their marriage; a lawful son..

Priest :: Priest (n.) A presbyter elder; a ministe.

Elder :: Elder (a.) A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder..

Fielding :: Fielding (n.) The act of playing as a fielder.

Yielder :: Yielder (n.) One who yields.

Elder :: Elder (a.) Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc..

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