to bend, incline. Take here hyldan in Dict. , and add: I. trans. :-- Ne drinc ðú of þǽre flascan, ac hyld (inclina) þú hí wærlíce, Gr. D. 142, 5. Þá þá hé helde l bígede cum (membra sopori) dedisset i. inclinasset, An. Ox. 2105. II. intrans. :-- Men gesáwon áne hand . . . of heofonum cumende; and seó hæfde áne gyldene róde, and wæs æteówod manegum mannum, and helde tóweard tóforan þæs húses duru ecce humana manus ab olympi nubibus ante ostium domus . . . porrecta videbatur, Guth. Gr. 105, 18. [N. E. D. hield.]