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Very old. [Obs.] A bear's skin, coal-black, forold. Chaucer.

Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division. He snall restore the lamb fourfold. 2 Sam. xii. 6.

for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held. Kent. Burrill. To abate into a freehold. See under Abate.

The possessor of a freehold.

One who has money invested in the public funds. J. S. Mill.

Money; riches; wealth. For me, the gold of France did not seduce. Shak.

Gilded. [Obs.]

The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. Ure.

Encompassed with gold.

The yellow-hammer.

An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.

The European golden-crested kinglet (Regulus cristatus, or R. regulus); -- called also golden-crested wren, and golden wren. The name is also sometimes applied to the American golden-crested kinglet. See Kinglet.

The cuckoobud.

Made of gold; consisting of gold.

California; -- a nickname alluding to its rich gold deposits.

r. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common.

graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago. Golden-rod tree (Bot.), a shrub (Bosea Yervamora), a native of the Canary Isles.

In golden terms or a golden manner; splendidly; delightfully. [Obs.] Shak.

throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William.

European labroid fishes (Crenilabrus melops, and Ctenolabrus rupestris); -- called also goldsinny, and goldney.