Gild

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cover with or as if with a thin layer of gold.
  • v. To give an often deceptively attractive or improved appearance to.
  • v. Archaic To smear with blood.
  • idiom. gild the lily To adorn unnecessarily something already beautiful.
  • idiom. gild the lily To make superfluous additions to what is already complete.
  • n. Variant of guild.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.
  • v. To adorn.
  • v. To make appear drunk.
  • n. Alternative form of guild.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.
  • v. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
  • v. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish.
  • v. To make red with drinking.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To overlay with gold, either in leaf or powder or in amalgam with quicksilver; overspread with a thin covering of gold.
  • To give the appearance of gold to, whether by means of actual gold-leaf or in some other way, as by lacquering polished brass, bronzing with gold-colored bronze-powder, or the like.
  • In old chemistry, to impregnate or saturate with gold.
  • Figuratively To give a golden appearance or color to; illuminate; brighten; render bright; make glowing.
  • To give a fair and agreeable external appearance to; recommend to favor and reception by superficial decoration: as, to gild flattery or falsehood.
  • To make drunk: in allusion to the effect of liquor in causing the face to glow.
  • n. An association or corporation established for the promotion of common objects, or mutual aid and protection in common pursuits, and supported (originally) by the contributions of its members.
  • n. A gildhall.
  • To sell.
  • n. See geld.
  • To electroplate by depositing a layer of gold from an electric bath.
  • To eat the alloy out of (a low-grade gold) by means of an acid, leaving the fine gold on the surface.
  • n. In phytogeography, one of several groups of plants which depend for their existence on other plants.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a formal association of people with similar interests
  • v. decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold
  • Verb Form
    gilded    gilding    gilds    gilt   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    grace    decorate    beautify    ornament    adorn    embellish   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    gilt   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adorn    brighten    embellish    deaurate    engild    begild    overgild   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bild    billed    build    childe    chilled    distilled    drilled    filled    fulfilled    grilled   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    golden    ornate    wooden    antique    yellow    shiny    bronze    gorgeous