Old

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Old \Old\ ([=o]ld), n.
     Open country. [Obs.] See {World}. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Old \Old\, a. [Compar. {Older}; superl. {Oldest}.] [OE. old,
     ald, AS. ald, eald; akin to D. oud, OS. ald, OFries. ald,
     old, G. alt, Goth. alpeis, and also to Goth. alan to grow up,
     Icel. ala to bear, produce, bring up, L. alere to nourish.
     Cf. {Adult}, {Alderman}, {Aliment}, {Auld}, {Elder}.]
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     1. Not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived
        till toward the end of the ordinary term of living; as, an
        old man; an old age; an old horse; an old tree.
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              Let not old age disgrace my high desire. --Sir P.
                                                    Sidney.
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              The melancholy news that we grow old. --Young.
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     2. Not new or fresh; not recently made or produced; having
        existed for a long time; as, old wine; an old friendship.
        "An old acquaintance." --Camden.
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     3. Formerly existing; ancient; not modern; preceding;
        original; as, an old law; an old custom; an old promise.
        "The old schools of Greece." --Milton. "The character of
        the old Ligurians." --Addison.
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     4. Continued in life; advanced in the course of existence;
        having (a certain) length of existence; -- designating the
        age of a person or thing; as, an infant a few hours old; a
        cathedral centuries old.
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              And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
                                                    --Cen. xlvii.
                                                    8.
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     Note: In this use old regularly follows the noun that
           designates the age; as, she was eight years old.
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     5. Long practiced; hence, skilled; experienced; cunning; as,
        an old offender; old in vice.
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              Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old.
                                                    --Milton.
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     6. Long cultivated; as, an old farm; old land, as opposed to
        {new} land, that is, to land lately cleared.
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     7. Worn out; weakened or exhausted by use; past usefulness;
        as, old shoes; old clothes.
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     8. More than enough; abundant. [Obs.]
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              If a man were porter of hell gate, he should have
              old turning the key.                  --Shak.
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     9. Aged; antiquated; hence, wanting in the mental vigor or
        other qualities belonging to youth; -- used disparagingly
        as a term of reproach.
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     10. Old-fashioned; wonted; customary; as of old; as, the good
         old times; hence, colloquially, gay; jolly.
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     11. Used colloquially as a term of cordiality and
         familiarity. "Go thy ways, old lad." --Shak.
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     {Old age}, advanced years; the latter period of life.
  
     {Old bachelor}. See {Bachelor}, 1.
  
     {Old Catholics}. See under {Catholic}.
  
     {Old English}. See under {English}. n., 2.
  
     {Old Nick}, {Old Scratch}, the devil.
  
     {Old lady} (Zool.), a large European noctuid moth ({Mormo
        maura}).
  
     {Old maid}.
         (a) A woman, somewhat advanced in years, who has never
             been married; a spinster.
         (b) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the pink-flowered
             periwinkle ({Vinca rosea}).
         (c) A simple game of cards, played by matching them. The
             person with whom the odd card is left is the old
             maid.
  
     {Old man's beard}. (Bot.)
         (a) The traveler's joy ({Clematis Vitalba}). So named
             from the abundant long feathery awns of its fruit.
         (b) The {Tillandsia usneoides}. See {Tillandsia}.
  
     {Old man's head} (Bot.), a columnar cactus ({Pilocereus
        senilis}), native of Mexico, covered towards the top with
        long white hairs.
  
     {Old red sandstone} (Geol.), a series of red sandstone rocks
        situated below the rocks of the Carboniferous age and
        comprising various strata of siliceous sandstones and
        conglomerates. See {Sandstone}, and the Chart of
        {Geology}.
  
     {Old school}, a school or party belonging to a former time,
        or preserving the character, manner, or opinions of a
        former time; as, a gentleman of the old school; -- used
        also adjectively; as, Old-School Presbyterians.
  
     {Old sledge}, an old and well-known game of cards, called
        also {all fours}, and {high, low, Jack, and the game}.
  
     {Old squaw} (Zool.), a duck ({Clangula hyemalis}) inhabiting
        the northern parts of both hemispheres. The adult male is
        varied with black and white and is remarkable for the
        length of its tail. Called also {longtailed duck}, {south
        southerly}, {callow}, {hareld}, and {old wife}.
  
     {Old style}. (Chron.) See the Note under {Style}.
  
     {Old Testament}. See {Old Testament} under {Testament}, and
        see {tanak}.
  
     {Old wife}. [In the senses
         b and
         c written also {oldwife}.]
         (a) A prating old woman; a gossip.
  
                   Refuse profane and old wives' fables. --1 Tim.
                                                    iv. 7.
         (b) (Zool.) The local name of various fishes, as the
             European black sea bream ({Cantharus lineatus}), the
             American alewife, etc.
         (c) (Zool.) A duck; the old squaw.
  
     {Old World}, the Eastern Hemisphere.
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     Syn: Aged; ancient; pristine; primitive; antique; antiquated;
          old-fashioned; obsolete. See {Ancient}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  old
       adj 1: (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively
              long time or attained a specific age; especially not
              young; often used as a combining form to indicate an
              age as specified as in `a week-old baby'; "an old
              man's eagle mind"--William Butler Yeats; "his mother
              is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"
              [ant: {young}]
       2: of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house";
          "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"
          [ant: {new}]
       3: of an earlier time; "his old classmates"
       4: (used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old
          story" [syn: {old(a)}]
       5: lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new;
          "moth-eaten theories about race" [syn: {stale}, {moth-eaten}]
       6: just preceding something else in time or order; "the
          previous owner"; "my old house was larger" [syn: {previous(a)}]
       7: of a very early stage in development; "Old English is also
          called Anglo Saxon"; "Old High German is High German from
          the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century"
       8: old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"
          [syn: {older}]
       9: used informally especially for emphasis; "a real
          honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time";
          "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel" [syn: {honest-to-god},
           {honest-to-goodness}, {old(a)}, {sure-enough(a)}]
       n : past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  144 Moby Thesaurus words for "old":
     abandoned, abjured, adult, advanced, advanced in life,
     advanced in years, age-old, aged, ageless, along in years, ancient,
     antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, auld, big, blase,
     bygone, constant, continuing, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, dated,
     dateless, demode, deserted, discontinued, disused, done with,
     early, elderly, enduring, erstwhile, established, experienced,
     firm, fore, former, getting on, gray, gray with age, gray-haired,
     gray-headed, grown, grown old, grown-up, hoar, hoary, immemorial,
     inveterate, knowing, late, lifelong, long-lived, marriable,
     marriageable, mature, matured, maturescent, not born yesterday,
     not worth saving, nubile, obsolescent, obsolete, of age,
     of marriageable age, of old, of yore, old as Methuselah,
     old as history, old as time, old-fashioned, old-time, old-timey,
     olden, oldfangled, on the shelf, once, onetime, out, out of use,
     out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, overage, passe, past,
     past use, patriarchal, pensioned off, perennial, perpetual,
     practical, practiced, prehistoric, previous, primeval, primitive,
     prior, quondam, recent, relinquished, renounced, resigned, retired,
     ripe, ripened, sagacious, seasoned, senectuous, skilled, solid,
     sometime, sophisticated, staying, steady, superannuate,
     superannuated, superseded, then, timeless, timeworn, traditional,
     tried, tried and true, venerable, versed, vet, veteran, whilom,
     white, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired,
     world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise, worn-out, wrinkled, wrinkly,
     years old
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  OLD, adj.  In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with
  general inefficiency, as an _old man_.  Discredited by lapse of time
  and offensive to the popular taste, as an _old_ book.
  
      "Old books?  The devil take them!" Goby said.
      "Fresh every day must be my books and bread."
      Nature herself approves the Goby rule
      And gives us every moment a fresh fool.
                                                             Harley Shum