GELD

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.[Obs.]

2.
v.

To castrate; to emasculate.

3.
v.

To deprive of anything essential. Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. Shak.

4.
v.

To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. [Obs.] Dryden.

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