Word Meanings - GOLD-BEATEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Gilded.

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• GILD
  Etym: 1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded chariots." Pope. No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. Pope. 2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. Let oft good humor,
• GILDALE
  A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share.
• GILDER
  One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.
• GILDING
  1. The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold. 2. Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any surface. 3. Any superficial coating or appearance,
• GILDEN
  Gilded. Holland.
• OVERGILD
  To gild over; to varnish.
• ENGILD
  To gild; to make splendent. Fair Helena, who most engilds the night. Shak.
• ELECTRO-GILDING
  The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.
• OCTOGILD
  A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the thing.
• REGILD
  To gild anew.
• WEREGILD
  The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer. Blackstone. (more info) life + gild payment
• BEGILD
  To gild. B. Jonson.
• WATER GILDING
  The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.
• ORFGILD
  Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle. Cowell.