Word Meanings - SPAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate . (more info) eunuch, Gr.

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• CASTRATE
  1. To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter. 2. To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate. My . . . correspondent . . . has sent
• EUNUCHISM
  The state of being eunuch. Bp. Hall.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• EXTIRPATE
  To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy. Syn. -- To eradicate; root out;
• BITCH
  1. The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox. 2. An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman. Pope.
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• EUNUCH; EUNUCHATE
  To make a eunuch of; to castrate. as a man. Creech. Sir. T. Browne.
• REMOVE
  1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
• EUNUCH
  A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank.
• SEMICASTRATE
  To deprive of one testicle. -- Sem`i*cas*tra"tion,n.