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to expurgate. My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places. Spectator.

To deprive of one testicle. -- Sem`i*cas*tra"tion,n.

A hog, esp. a male hog castrated. Holland.

The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.

e the pump. -- Bull snake (Zoöl.), the pine snake of the United States. -- Bull stag, a castrated bull. See Stag. -- Bull wheel, a wheel, or drum, on which a rope is wound for lifting heavy articles, as logs, the tools in well boring, etc.

A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table. Shak. The merry thought of a capon. W. Irving.

To castrate, as a fowl.

A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano. Swift.

To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.

To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.

A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank.

To make a eunuch of; to castrate. as a man. Creech. Sir. T. Browne.

To castrate; to emasculate.

One who gelds or castrates.

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).

To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.] Shak.

A castrated deer.

r their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.

The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.

To castrate. [Obs.]