gelded

n. [ AS. gild, gield, geld, tribute, payment, fr. gieldan to pay, render. See Yield. ] Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.[ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gelded or Gelt (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Gelding. ] [ Icel. gelda to castrate; akin to Dan. gilde, Sw. gälla, and cf. AS. gilte a young sow, OHG. galt dry, not giving milk, G. gelt, Goth. gilpa siclke. ] 1. To castrate; to emasculate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deprive of anything essential. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being gelded. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Geld money. ] Liable to taxation. [ Obs. ] Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who gelds or castrates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Guelder-rose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. gelding a gelding, akin to geldingr wether, eunuch, Sw. gälling gelding, Dan. gilding eunuch. See Geld, v. t. ] A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male. [ 1913 Webster ]

They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. Wyclif (Acts viii. 38). [ 1913 Webster ]

p. pr., a., & vb. n. from Geld, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. un- not + geld payment. ] (Anglo-Sax. Law) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (O. Eng. Law) See Weregild. [ 1913 Webster ]