bieldy

Adjective

bieldy (comparative more bieldy, superlative most bieldy)

1. (Scotland) Sheltered from the weather; affording shelter.
   • His Honour, ye see, being under hiding in thae sair times--the mair's the pity--he lies a' day, and whiles a' night, in the cove in the dern hag; but though it's a bieldy eneugh bit, and the auld gudeman o' Corse-Cleugh has panged it wi' a kemple o' strae amaist, yet when the country's quiet, and...1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete
   • Then it was that they were wont to come over our seven hills and seven waters to help themselves to our cattle when the same were at their fattest and best It would be a skurry of bare knees down pass and brae, a ring of the robbers round the herd sheltering on the bieldy side of the hill or in the...1898, Neil Munro, John Splendid