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Gilded definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GILD'ED, pp. Overlaid with gold leaf or liquid; illuminated.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet" [syn: aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden]
2: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" [syn: gilded, meretricious, specious]
3: rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms" [syn: deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous]
4: made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons" [syn: gold, golden, gilded]

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.

Moby Thesaurus

apparent, aureate, auric, beige, buff, buff-yellow, canary, canary-yellow, citron, citron-yellow, colorable, colored, cream, creamy, ecru, fallow, flaxen, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden, lemon, lemon-yellow, luteolous, lutescent, meretricious, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, or, ostensible, plausible, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored, sandy, seeming, specious, straw, straw-colored, tinsel, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish