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to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor. Where the golden altar fumed. Milton. Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain. Roscommon.

Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement. "Oddity, frolic, and fun." Goldsmith. To make fan of, to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.

A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.

A similar bordering or binding of rich material, such as gold lace. Silver and gold galloons, with the like glittering gewgaws. Addison.

To plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of electricity.

The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.

The European golden-eye.

pronoun, the personality of a general. Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene. Goldsmith.

A gold noble of the time of Henry VIII. See Noble, n.

ning to deeds or feats of arms; legendary. And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore. Goldsmith.

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.

One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.

The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold.

Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow. "Gilt hair" Chaucer.

Chrysophrys, auratus, a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll.

at the waist; a cestus. Within the girdle of these walls. Shak. Their breasts girded with golden girdles. Rev. xv. 6.

; to sparkle; to be brilliant; to shine; to glisten; to glitter. All that glisters is not gold. Shak.

gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. The black gibbet glooms beside the way. Goldsmith. [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom. Spenser.

supposed to proceed from beings of peculiar sanctity. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.

show. To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art. Goldsmith.