[syn: gold, golden, gilded]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), 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.
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            No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. --Pope.
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   2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
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            Let oft good humor, mild and gay,
            Gild the calm evening of your day.    --Trumbull.
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   3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to
      embellish; as, to gild a lie. --Shak.
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   4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.]
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            This grand liquior that hath gilded them. --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
gilded
    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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "gilded":
   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