Thesaurus: geld

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1. n. Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.
2. v. t. To castrate; to emasculate.
3. v. t. To deprive of anything essential.
4. v. t. To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate.
5. v. cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
6. word/money">Money; word/tribute">tribute; compensation; ransom.[Obs.] Note: This word occurs in old law books in composition, as in danegeld, or danegelt, a tax imposed by the Danes; weregeld, compensation for the life of a man, etc. 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.
7. Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.[Obs.]
8. v. cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)