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Gild

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Gild has 1 sense

Verb Gild has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Gildv. t. [AS. gyldan, from gold gold. Gold.].
  •  To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.  Pope.  [1913 Webster]
    "No more the rising sun shall gild the morn."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.  [1913 Webster]
    "Let oft good humor, mild and gay,
    Gild the calm evening of your day.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To make red with drinking.  [1913 Webster]
    "This grand liquior that hath gilded them."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Gild, 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.

Idiom
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.
Derivative
gilder n.
Gild, var. of GUILD.

THESAURUS

Gild

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

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Beauty

VB be beautiful, shine, beam, bloom, become one, set off, grace, render beautiful, beautify, polish, burnish, gild, set out, snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

Ornament

VB ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge, smell of the lamp, ornament, embellish, enrich, decorate, adorn, bead, beautify, adonize, smarten, furbish, polish, gild, varnish, whitewash, enamel, japan, lacquer, paint, grain, garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank, trick out, fig out, deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array, begawd, titivate, dress, dress up, spangle, bespangle, powder, embroider, work, chase, emboss, fret, emblazon, illuminate, illustrate, become.

Covering

VB cover, superpose, superimpose, overlay, overspread, wrap, encase, incase, face, case, veneer, pave, paper, tip, cap, bind, bulkhead, bulkhead in, clapboard, coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar, wash, besmear, bedaub, anoint, do over, gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash, parget, lay it on thick, overlie, overarch, endome, conceal, anodize, galvanize.

Orange

VB gild, warm.

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