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Beldam   Listen
noun
Beldame, Beldam  n.  
1.
Grandmother; corresponding to belsire. "To show the beldam daughters of her daughter."
2.
An old woman in general; especially, an ugly old woman; a hag.
Synonyms: hag, beldam, witch, crone. "Around the beldam all erect they hang."





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"Beldam" Quotes from Famous Books



... his first assertion. "An old she it is, surrounded by wolves. Ha! it's her cubs they're after! Voila, messieurs! She's got one of them on her back. Enfant de garce, how the old beldam keeps them at bay! She's fighting her way to ...
— Bruin - The Grand Bear Hunt • Mayne Reid
... then the Beldam leads the Lady on Through many roomes & other turning waies As in a laborinth they two had gone; And as they go, she to the Lady saies; Now cheere you vp, and get a iocund minde In thinking of the pleasures you ...
— Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) • Dunstan Gale
... chapeau-de-soie immediately beyond. Your patience is exhausted, and your curiosity driven to the highest pitch of anxiety; you make a desperate stride, push by the old bonnet, and look round with indignation to see what beldam had thus been between you and the "cynosure of neighbouring eyes:"—whew! 'tis the pretty young shop-girl that served you with your last pair of gloves, and measured them so fascinatingly along your hand, that your ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various
... "Witch, beldam, devil!" he cried, "I charge you, by the power of God, begone—if you be dead, to the grave; if you be damned, ...
— Stories by English Authors: Scotland • Various
... thing, I do beseech thee tell me, tell me truth, Wife, However I forgive thee, art thou honest? The Beldam swore. ...
— Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife - Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher


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