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21 words match “GELD”

GELD v. 4 definitions
To deprive of anything essential. Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. Shak.
GELDABLE a. 2 definitions
Capable of being gelded.
GELDER n.
One who gelds or castrates.
GELDER-ROSE n.
Same as Guelder-rose.
GELDING n. 2 definitions
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).
DANEGELD; DANEGELT n.
An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm. Wharton's Law Dict. Tomlins…
UNGELD n.
A person so far out of the protection of the law, that if he were murdered, no geld, or fine, should be paid, or composition made by him that killed him. Cowell. Burrill.
WEHRGELD; WEHRGELT n.
See Weregild.
WODEGELD n.
A geld, or payment, for wood. Burrill.
ALTER v.
To geld. [Colloq.]
BRAWN n.
a boar. The best age for the boar is from two to five years, at which time it is best to geld him, or sell him for brawn. Mortimer.
CAPON n.
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.
CASTRATE v.
To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.
CUT v. 2 definitions
To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.
EMASCULATE v.
To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
ENTIRE a.
Not gelded; -- said of a horse.
GELT n.
A gelding. [Obs.] Mortimer.
GLIB v.
To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.] Shak.
HALFER n.
A male fallow deer gelded. Pegge (1814).
WALK v.
low pace; as to walk one's horses. " I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding." Shak.
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