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noun

Beldame, Beldam n.

Grandmother; corresponding to belsire. "To show the beldam daughters of her daughter."

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Beldame" Quotes from Famous Books

... her cane). Those are bold words, Master Benjamin Franklin. Are you not feared to speak them? (Looks half-fearfully over her left shoulder.) Folk might think you were in league with—with strange powers! (There is a touch of the eighteenth-century beldame in her as ...

— Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People • Constance D'Arcy Mackay

... The Beldame then: "The fool and blind! Such mad perverseness who may apprehend?" - "Nay; there's no madness in it; thou shalt find Thy law ...

— Poems of the Past and the Present • Thomas Hardy

... whole." O happy they! (so into thought I fell) After life's endless babble they sleep well: My turn is next: dispatch me: for the weird Has come to pass which I so long have feared, The fatal weird a Sabine beldame sung, All in my nursery days, when life was young: "No sword nor poison e'er shall take him off, Nor gout, nor pleurisy, nor racking cough: A babbling tongue shall kill him: let him fly All talkers, as he ...

— The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry • Horace

... taken by surprise, was some time before she could shake off the old beldame's hateful caresses; but at last getting free and tucking up her hair, which her imaginary mother-in-law had clawed about her ears, she exclaimed in ...

— Handy Andy, Vol. 2 - A Tale of Irish Life • Samuel Lover

... fell to work. "Human Justice" rushed before me in novel guise, a red, random beldame, with arms akimbo. I saw her in her house, the den of confusion: servants called to her for orders or help which she did not give; beggars stood at her door waiting and starving unnoticed; a swarm of children, sick and quarrelsome, ...

— Villette • Charlotte Bronte

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