Trick; jest; sport. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Deceit; fraud; artifice; device. [Obs.] Chaucer.
An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. "An idle gaud." Shak.
To sport or keep festival. [Obs.] "Gauding with his familiars. " [Obs.] Sir T. North.
To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint. [Obs.] "Nicely gauded cheeks." Shak.
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