Word Meanings - WETHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A castrated ram. (more info) ram, D. weder, G. widder, OHG. widar, Icel. ver, Sw. vädur, Dan. vædder, Goth. wiprus a lamb, L. vitulus calf, Skr. vatsa, L. vetus

Related words: (words related to WETHER)

• 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
• WEDER
  Weather. Chaucer.
• CASTRATION
  The act of castrating.
• VETUST
  Venerable from antiquity; ancient; old.
• CASTRATO
  A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano. Swift.
• SEMICASTRATE
  To deprive of one testicle. -- Sem`i*cas*tra"tion,n.