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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Gelding \Geld"ing\, n. [Icel. gelding a gelding, akin to geldingr wether, eunuch, Sw. g[84]lling gelding, Dan. gilding eunuch. See {Geld}, v. t.] A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male. They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. --Wyclif (Acts viii. 38). | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Gelding \Geld"ing\, p. pr. a. & vb. n. from {Geld}, v. t. | |
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Geld \Geld\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gelded} or Gelt ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Gelding}.] [Icel. gelda to castrate; akin to Dan. gilde, Sw. g[84]lla, and cf. AS. gilte a young sow, OHG. galt dry, not giving milk, G. gelt, Goth. gilpa siclke.] 1. To castrate; to emasculate. 2. To deprive of anything essential. Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. --Shak. 3. To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. [Obs.] --Dryden. | |
