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geld
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Geld
(gcide) | Geld \Geld\, n. [AS. gild, gield, geld, tribute, payment, fr.
gieldan to pay, render. See Yield.]
Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.[Obs.]
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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.
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Geld
(gcide) | Geld \Geld\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gelded or Gelt (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Gelding.] [Icel. gelda to castrate; akin to Dan.
gilde, Sw. g[aum]lla, and cf. AS. gilte a young sow, OHG.
galt dry, not giving milk, G. gelt, Goth. gilpa siclke.]
1. To castrate; to emasculate.
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2. To deprive of anything essential.
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Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. --Shak.
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3. To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book,
or a story; to expurgate. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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geld
(wn) | geld
v 1: cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses);
"the vet gelded the young horse" [syn: geld, cut] |
GELD
(bouvier) | GELD, old Eng. law. It signifies a fine or compensation for an offence;
also, rent, money or tribute.
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geld
(encz) | geld,vykleštit v: Zdeněk Brož |
gelded
(encz) | gelded, adj: |
gelding
(encz) | gelding,valach n: Zdeněk Brož |
Danegeld
(gcide) | Danegeld \Dane"geld`\, Danegelt \Dane"gelt`\, n. [AS. danegeld.
See Dane, and Geld, n.] (Eng. Hist.)
An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off
the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to
oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by
an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two
shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm.
--Wharton's Law Dict. Tomlins.
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Geldable
(gcide) | Geldable \Geld"a*ble\, a.
Capable of being gelded.
[1913 Webster]Geldable \Geld"a*ble\, a. [From Geld money.]
Liable to taxation. [Obs.] --Burrill.
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Gelded
(gcide) | Geld \Geld\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gelded or Gelt (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Gelding.] [Icel. gelda to castrate; akin to Dan.
gilde, Sw. g[aum]lla, and cf. AS. gilte a young sow, OHG.
galt dry, not giving milk, G. gelt, Goth. gilpa siclke.]
1. To castrate; to emasculate.
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2. To deprive of anything essential.
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Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. --Shak.
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3. To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book,
or a story; to expurgate. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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Gelder
(gcide) | Gelder \Geld"er\, n.
One who gelds or castrates.
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Gelder-rose
(gcide) | Gelder-rose \Gel"der-rose\, n.
Same as Guelder-rose.
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Gelding
(gcide) | Gelding \Geld"ing\, n. [Icel. gelding a gelding, akin to
geldingr wether, eunuch, Sw. g[aum]lling gelding, Dan.
gilding eunuch. See Geld, v. t.]
A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but
formerly used also of the human male.
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They went down both into the water, Philip and the
gelding, and Philip baptized him. --Wyclif (Acts
viii. 38).
[1913 Webster]Gelding \Geld"ing\, p. pr., a., & vb. n.
from Geld, v. t.
[1913 Webster]Geld \Geld\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gelded or Gelt (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Gelding.] [Icel. gelda to castrate; akin to Dan.
gilde, Sw. g[aum]lla, and cf. AS. gilte a young sow, OHG.
galt dry, not giving milk, G. gelt, Goth. gilpa siclke.]
1. To castrate; to emasculate.
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2. To deprive of anything essential.
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Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. --Shak.
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3. To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book,
or a story; to expurgate. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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Ungeld
(gcide) | Ungeld \Un*geld"\, 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.
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Wehrgeld
(gcide) | Wehrgeld \Wehr"geld`\, Wehrgelt \Wehr"gelt`\, n. (O. Eng. Law)
See Weregild.
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weregeld
(gcide) | Weregild \Were"gild`\, n. [AS. wergild; wer a man, value set on
a man's life + gild payment of money; akin to G. wehrgeld.
[root]285. See Were a man, and Geld, n.] (O. Eng. Law)
The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man
killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly
to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It
was paid by the murderer. [Written also weregeld,
weregelt, etc.] --Blackstone.
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Wodegeld
(gcide) | Wodegeld \Wode"geld`\, n. [See Wood, and Geld.] (O. Eng.
Law)
A geld, or payment, for wood. --Burrill.
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geld
(wn) | geld
v 1: cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses);
"the vet gelded the young horse" [syn: geld, cut] |
gelded
(wn) | gelded
adj 1: (of a male animal) having the testicles removed; "a cut
horse" [syn: cut, emasculated, gelded] |
gelding
(wn) | gelding
n 1: castrated male horse |
GELD
(bouvier) | GELD, old Eng. law. It signifies a fine or compensation for an offence;
also, rent, money or tribute.
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WOODGELD
(bouvier) | WOODGELD, old Eng. law. To be free from the payment of money for taking of
wood in any forest. Co. Litt. 233 a. The same as Pudzeld. (q.v.)
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