spayedadj.
/speɪd/ Having the ovaries excised.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [adjective] > castrated > spayed
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a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xi And also oo spayed bycche lasteth longer in hir bonte þenne oþer two þat be not spayed.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 154v The spayde Bitches doo byte sorest.
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice v. 50 If they be speade or gelte mares, they be then the worst of al.
a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 39 The Groom is Rampant, but the Bride is Spade.
1684 London Gaz. No. 1906/4 Stolen.., a Spaid Bay Mare about 15 hands high.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 408 Such a sow was worth less by two shillings..than a spayed sow.
1779 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 69 286 When they are preserved it is..for all the purposes of an ox or spayed heifer.
1813 Sporting Mag. 42 23 Attended only by his two faithful spayed bitches.
1851 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm (ed. 2) I. 256/2 A quey-calf whose ovaries have been obliterated, to prevent her breeding, is a spayed heifer, or a spayed quey.
1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 573/1 The spayed animal continued to breed until she was six years old.
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