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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GILD, v.t. pret. and pp. gilded or gilt.
1. To overlay with gold, either in leaf or powder, or in amalgam with quicksilver; to overspread with a thin covering of gold; as the gilt frame of a mirror.
Her joy in gilded chariots when alive,
And love of ombre after death survive.
2. To cover with any yellow matter.
3. To adorn with luster; to render bright.
No more the rising sun shall gild the morn.
4. To illuminate; to brighten.
Let oft good humor, mild and gay,
Gild the calm evening of your day.
5. To give a fair and agreeable external appearance; to recommend to favor and reception by superficial decoration; as, to gild flattery or falsehood.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order] v
1: decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold [syn: gild, begild, engild]

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb (gilded or gilt; gilding) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gyldan; akin to Old English gold gold Date: 14th century 1. to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold 2. a. to give money to b. to give an attractive but often deceptive appearance to c. archaic to make bloody • gilder noun II. variant of guild

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. v.tr. (past part. gilded or as adj. in sense 1 gilt) 1 cover thinly with gold. 2 tinge with a golden colour or light. 3 give a specious or false brilliance to. Phrases and idioms: gilded cage luxurious but restrictive surroundings. gilded youth young people of wealth, fashion, and flair. gild the lily try to improve what is already beautiful or excellent. Derivatives: gilder n. Etymology: OE gyldan f. Gmc 2. var. of GUILD.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(gilds, gilding, gilded) If you gild a surface, you cover it in a thin layer of gold or gold paint. Carve the names and gild them. ...gilded statues. VERB: V n, V-ed

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Coat with gold-leaf, overlay with gold. 2. Adorn, brighten, illuminate, make lustrous, make bright.

Moby Thesaurus

adorn, apply paint, aurify, bedaub, belie, besmear, brighten, brush on paint, butter, calcimine, camouflage, coat, color, complexion, convolute, cover, dab, daub, decorate, deep-dye, dip, disguise, distemper, distort, double-dye, dress up, dye, elaborate, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enamel, engild, enrich, face, falsify, fast-dye, festoon, flourish, fresco, fudge, garble, gild the lily, glaze, gloss, gloss over, grain, hue, illuminate, imbue, ingrain, involve, japan, jaundice, lacquer, lay on, lay on color, load with ornament, mask, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, ornament, overcharge, overlay, overload, overstate, paint, parget, pervert, pigment, prime, sallow, shade, shadow, shellac, slant, slap on, slather, slop on paint, smear, smear on, spread on, spread with, stain, stipple, strain, sweeten, tar, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, titivate, tone, trick out, turn yellow, twist, undercoat, understate, varnish, warp, wash, whitewash, yellow