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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Geld

Gĕld, n.

noun

n. [A-S. gild, gield, geld, tribute, from gildan, geldan, Icel. giald, money, debt; Dan. gield, Sw. gäld, O. H. Ger. gelt, N. H. Ger. & D. geld, money; Goth. gild, tribute.] Money; tribute; compensation.

☞ This word is obsolete in English, but it occurs in old laws and law books in composition, as in danegeld, or danegelt, a tax imposed by the Danes; weregeld, compensation for the life of a man, and the like.

Gēld, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. GELDED, OR GELT; p. pr. & vb. n. GELDING.] [Icel. gelda, to castrate; Dan. gilde, Sw. gälla, A-S. gylle, castrated; Icel. geldtr, castrated, geldr, dry; A-S. gelde, O. H. Ger. gialt, galt, gelte, dry, not giving milk.]

  1. To castrate; to emasculate.
  2. To deprive of any thing essential. “Bereft and gelded of his patrimony.” Shak.
  3. To deprive of any thing exceptionable, as a book, a story, and the like; to expurgate. Dryden.