beldam used as a term of contempt,—a hag:
“Beldam, I think we watch'd you,”
2 HENRY VI., i. 4. 42
;
“beldams as you are,”
MACBETH, iii. 5. 2.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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