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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Geld \Geld\, noun [AS. gild, gield, geld, tribute, payment, fr. gieldan to pay, render. See {Yield}.] Money; 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Geld \Geld\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Gelded} or Gelt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Gelding}.] [Icel. gelda to castrate; akin to Dan. gilde, Sw. g["a]lla, and cf. AS. gilte a young sow, OHG. galt dry, not giving milk, G. gelt, Goth. gilpa siclke.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
geld
verb: cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses); "the vet gelded the young horse" [syn: {cut}] [also: {gelt}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "geld": alter, castrate, change, demasculinize, desexualize, effeminate, effeminatize, effeminize, emasculate, eunuchize, fix, mutilate, neuter, sissify, soften, spay, unsex, womanize
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