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To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. Cowley.

chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity. [Poetic]. The gilded car of day. Milton. The towering car, the sable steeds. Tennyson.

Gilded leather. [Obs.] Spenser.

white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.

ather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like. Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain. Spenser.

a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf;

To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.

Gilded. [Obs.]

Act of gilding. [Obs.]

fainting courage, and dispelled their fears. Milton. I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night. Dryden.

Calf stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books.

Gilded by means of voltaic electricity.

To bend like a bow; to curve. "Embowed arches." [Obs. or R.] Sir W. Scott. With gilded horns embowed like the moon. Spenser.

s; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, . . . Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Shak. That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy. Walsh.

To decay; to disappear; to vanish. Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye. Pope.

. -- Fire escape, a contrivance for facilitating escape from burning buildings. -- Fire gilding (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off afterward by heat. -- Fire gilt (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire gilding. -- Fire insurance, the a…

To beat with a flap; to strike. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings. Pope.

A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size. Knolles.

Gilding; tinsel. [Obs.] Spenser.

xtension, a plasterlike or pasty material spread upon a surface to fit it for painting or gilding, or a surface so prepared.