Gild
[gɪld] or [ɡɪld]
Definition
(verb.) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Coat with gold-leaf.[2]. Adorn, brighten, make lustrous, make bright.
Editor: Tracy
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ADORN]
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Definition
v.t. to cover or overlay with gold: to cover with any gold-like substance: to gloss over: to adorn with lustre:—pr.p. gild′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. gild′ed or gilt.—ns. Gild′er one who coats articles with gold; Gild′ing act or trade of a gilder: gold laid on any surface for ornament.—Gilded Chamber the House of Lords; Gild the pill to do something to make a disagreeable thing seem less so.
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Examples
- Sleep, sweetly--I gild thy dreams! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- No sun shall ever usher forth mine honours, Or gild again the noble hoofs that waited Upon my smiles. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He could carve a bit, and gild and frame, and do odd jobs. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I might as well 'gild refined gold. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- There were painted white chairs, with gilding and wreaths on them, and some lingering red silk damask with slits in it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Ginevra seconded me; between us we half-changed the nature of the _r?le_, gilding it from top to toe. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Space will not permit the enumeration of the vast variety of processes and machines for coating and gilding that have since followed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I suppose I was truly tempted by the mere gilding of the bait. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I suppose they are those heavy ones, sir,' said Oliver, pointing to some large quartos, with a good deal of gilding about the binding. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- They were covered with gilding, and resembled the shoe of a Chinaman. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Compared with the vast gilded void of Mrs. Hatch's existence, the life of Lily's former friends seemed packed with ordered activities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- To midnight revelry, and the panting emulation of beauty, to costly dress and birth-day shew, to title and the gilded coronet, farewell! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But prominent in it was a draped table with a gilded looking-glass, and that I made out at first sight to be a fine lady's dressing-table. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And dropping a small, gilded bottle at the witch's feet, the spirit vanished. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The next moment I sat in a cold, glittering salon, with porcelain stove, unlit, and gilded ornaments, and polished floor. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We greedily eat and drink poison out of the gilded cup of vice or from the beggar's wallet of avarice. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I told his impudence that the gilt pestle and mortar was quite ornament enough; as if I was born, indeed, to be a country surgeon's wife! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A couple of glazed book-cases were here, containing standard works in stout gilt bindings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It's wrote on gilt-edged paper,' said Sam, as he unfolded it, 'and sealed in bronze vax vith the top of a door key. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If we are gentlefolks they will put hatchments over our late domicile, with gilt cherubim, and mottoes stating that there is Quiet in Heaven. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I was NABBED by Moss of Cursitor Street--from whose GILT AND SPLENDID PARLER I write this--the same that had me this time two years. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I sat with my eyes fixed on the door--a great white folding-door, with gilt mouldings: I watched to see a leaf move and open. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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