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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Spayed

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Spaying

[Cf. Armor.

spac’hein

spaza

to geld, W.

dyspaddu

to geld, L.

spado

a eunuch, Gr. [GREEK].]

To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).

Noun.

[Cf.

a spay,

Verb.

]

(Zool.)

The male of the red deer in his third year; a spade.

Verb.

[L. spado, a gelding.] To castrate the female of a beast by cutting and by taking out the uterus; as, to spay a sow.