beldam a grandmother:
“the old beldam earth,”
1 HENRY IV., iii. 1. 32
(where, in the next line but one, is Our grandam
earth, as synonymous);
“To show the beldam daughters of her daughter,”
THE RAPE OF LUCRECE, 953
;
“Old men and beldams”
KING JOHN, iv. 2. 185.
(old women).
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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