gild

[Gild]

To gild something is to cover it with gold. You gild an object in order to decorate it or just to show off your wealth.

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To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.

Noun
a formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"

Verb
decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold

v. t.
To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.

v. t.
To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.

v. t.
To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie.

v. t.
To make red with drinking.

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.

2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.

Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day.

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.

To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.

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Usage Examples

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

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