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gild

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Gild  \Gild\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Gilded}  or  {Gilt}  (?);  p.  pr 
  &  vb  n.  {Gilding}.]  [AS.  gyldan  from  gold  gold.  [root]234. 
  See  {Gold}.] 
  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,  mild  and  gay,  Gild  the  calm 
  evening  of  your  day  --Trumbull. 
 
  3.  To  give  a  fair  but  deceptive  outward  appearance  to  to 
  embellish;  as  to  gild  a  lie.  --Shak. 
 
  4.  To  make  red  with  drinking.  [Obs.] 
 
  This  grand  liquior  that  hath  gilded  them  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  gild 
  n  :  a  formal  association  of  people  with  similar  interests;  "he 
  joined  a  golf  club";  "they  formed  a  small  lunch  society"; 
  "men  from  the  fraternal  order  will  staff  the  soup  kitchen 
  today"  [syn:  {club},  {society},  {guild},  {lodge},  {order}] 
  v  :  decorate  with  or  as  if  with  gold  leaf  or  liquid  gold  [syn: 
  {begild},  {engild}]




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