a. Sc. Also 8 beildy, biely. [f. as prec. + -Y1.] Affording shelter.

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a. 1758.  Ramsay, Poems, II. 485 (Jam.). Beildy holes when tempests blaw.

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1789.  D. Davidson, Seasons, 176 (Jam.). An’ Spring peeps cautious on the biely braes.

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1822.  Scott, Nigel, xxvii. When I came here first … England was a bieldy bit.

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