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eldesta. [AS. yldest, superl. of eald old. See Elder, a.].
  •  Oldest; longest in duration.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
    "Their eldest historians are of suspected credit."  [1913 Webster]
Eldest hand (Card Playing), the player on the dealer's left hand. R. A. Proctor.


eldest, adj. & n.
--adj. first-born or oldest surviving (member of a family, son, daughter, etc.).
--n. (often prec. by the) the eldest of three or more indicated (who is the eldest?).

eldest hand Cards the first player.
OE (as ELDER(1))






N age, oldness, old age, advanced age, golden years, senility, senescence, years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation, second childhood, second childishness, dotage, vale of years, decline of life, sear and yellow leaf, threescore years and ten, green old age, ripe age, longevity, time of life, seniority, eldership, elders, firstling, doyen, father, primogeniture, geriatrics, nostology, aged, old, elderly, geriatric, senile, matronly, anile, in years, ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime, gray, gray-headed, hoar, hoary, venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated, advanced in life, advanced in years, stricken in years, wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot, having one foot in the grave, doting, like the last of pea time, older, elder, eldest, senior, firstborn, turned of, years old, of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah, ancestral, patriarchal, gerontic, give me a staff of honor for my age, bis pueri senes, peu de gens savent elre vieux, plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus, old age is creeping on apace, slow-consuming age, the hoary head is a crown of glory, the silver livery of advised age, to grow old gracefully, to vanish in the chinks that Time has made.

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