1. (n.) Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.

2. (v. t.) To castrate; to emasculate.

3. (v. t.) To deprive of anything essential.

4. (v. t.) To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate.

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