- 1. n. Money; tribute; compensation; ransom. Source: opted
- 2. v. t. To castrate; to emasculate. Source: opted
- 3. v. t. To deprive of anything essential. Source: opted
- 4. v. t. To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. Source: opted
- 5. v. cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 7. Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.[Obs.] Source: adambom
- 8. v. cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) Source: ecdict
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