An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

2. Support, stay, means of sustenance, S.
Douglas.
3. A place of shelter; hence, applied to a house, a habitation; S.
Morison.

A. Bor. beild, id.

Beilding also occurs, where it seems doubtful whether buildings or shelter be meant.
Gawan and Gol.

Isl. baele denotes both a bed or couch, and a cave, a lurking place; cubile, spelunca. It is highly probable, that baele is radically the same with Isl. boele, domicilium, habitatio; from bo, to build, to inhabit.

To BEILD, v. a.
1. To supply, to support.
Wallace.
2. In one passage it seems to signify, to take refuge; in a neuter sense.
Gawan and Gol.

This verb, it would seem, has been formed from [the noun], q. v., or has a common origin with Isl. bael-a, used to denote the act of causing cattle to lie down.

BEILDY, adj. Affording shelter.
Ramsay.

BEILD, adj. Bold.
Houlate.

A. S. beald, id. A. S. Alem. belde, audacia.

BEILL, s. Perhaps, sorrow, care, q. baill.
Bannatyne Poems.