geld1 (geld)

[E. dial.; Sc. yeld, yell, barren, not with young, too young to bear (of cattle, sheep, etc.), also barren, bleak (of soil), bleak (of weather), etc.; Geldynge or gelde horse, canter i us. Prompt. Parv., p. 190. Elde maketh me geld an growen al grai. Early Eng . Poems (ed. Furnivall), p. 148. 21. Barren; sterile. Elesabeth, thi cosyn, that is cald geld , She has conceyffed a son. Towneley Mysteries, p. 75. IMG:content-2179.jpg:[blocks in formation] gelid (jel'id), a. [L. gelid us, cool, cold, cal.] The ma of blood Within me is a standing lake of fire, Curled with the cold wind of my gelid sighs. B. Jonson, New Inn, v. 1. While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round.the smiling land. Goldsmith , Traveller, 1. 121. gelidity (jē-lid'i-ti), n. [ gelid + ity .] The state of being gelid; extreme cold. Gelidium (je-lid'i-um), n. [NL., gelum , ge- lus , gelu , cold, frost: see gelid .] A widely dif- fused genus of florideous marine algæ, having narrowly linear or nearly terete much-branched fronds of dense structure. The cystocarps are im- mersed in the frond and contain spores attached to an axile placenta. One of the commonest species is G. corneum . gelidly (jel'id-li), adv. In a gelid or very cold manner; coldly. gelidne (jel'id-nes), n. The state or quality of being gelid; coldne . the plant being known in the United States as the wild, yellow, or Carolina jasmine, though not related to the true jasmines: see jas mine.] 1. A genus of twining shrubs of the order Logania cea, with opposite entire evergreen leaves and fragrant yellow flowers. There are three species, two natives of eastern Asia, and the third, G. sempervirens, the yellow jasmine of the Flowering Branch of Yellow Jasmine southern United States, found in woods and low (Gelsemium sempervirens). grounds from Virginia to Texas. Its root has poisonous properties inducing paralysis, and the tincture is used medicinally in various diseases. 2. [l. c.] The root of this plant, or the tincture prepared from it, used as a drug. gelt1 (gelt). An occasional preterit and past participle of geld1.