geldingn.[Icel. gelding a gelding, akin to geldingr wether, eunuch, Sw. glling gelding, Dan. gilding eunuch. See Geld, v. t.] A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male.()They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. (Wyclif (Acts viii. 38).)p. pr., a., & vb. n. from Geld, v. t.()