gilt

Noun · Adjective

WordNet 3.0

having the deep slightly brownish color of gold“long aureate (or golden) hair”“a gold carpet”Synonyms: aureate gilded gold golden

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. [1913 Webster]

No more the rising sun shall gild the morn.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

2.To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. [1913 Webster]

Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day.— Trumbull.[1913 Webster]

3.To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

4.To make red with drinking. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

This grand liquior that hath gilded them.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

Gilt \Gilt\, n. [See Geld, v. t.] (Zool.) A female pig, when young. [1913 Webster]

Gilt \Gilt\, imp. & p. p. of Gild. [1913 Webster]

Gilt \Gilt\, p. p. & a. Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow. "Gilt hair" --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Gilt \Gilt\, n.

1.Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

2.Money. [Obs.] "The gilt of France." --Shak. Gilt-edge