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. Pope.
To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day. Trumbull.
To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie. Shak.
To make red with drinking. [Obs.] This grand liquior that hath gilded them. Shak.
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