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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gelding \Geld"ing\, noun [Icel. gelding a gelding, akin to geldingr wether, eunuch, Sw. g["a]lling gelding, Dan. gilding eunuch. See {Geld}, verb (used with an object)] 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).
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gelding \Geld"ing\, p. pr., adjective, & vb. n. from {Geld}, verb (used with an object)
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "gelding": Houyhnhnm, altering, blank cartridge, brood mare, castration, castrato, charger, colt, courser, critter, dobbin, dud, emasculation, entire, entire horse, equine, eunuch, filly, fixing, foal, horse, impotent, incompetent, invalid, mare, mount, nag, prancer, spaying, stallion, steed, stud, studhorse, tarpan, top horse, war-horse, weakling, wild horse
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