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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.

A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share. [Obs.]

Gilded. Holland.

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

Any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what is solid and genuine. Gilding metal, a tough kind of sheet brass from which cartridge shells are made.

To gild. B. Jonson.

The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.

To gild; to make splendent. Fair Helena, who most engilds the night. Shak.

A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the thing.

Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle. Cowell.

To gild over; to varnish.

To gild anew.

The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.

The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer. [Written also weregeld, weregelt, etc.] Blackstone.

ing something common into something precious. Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy. Shak.

se." "To alter the condition of a man." "No power in Venice can alter a decree." Shak. It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Pope. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Ps. lxxxix. 34.

s, literature, history; ancient days. Witness those ancient empires of the earth. Milton. Gildas Albanius . . . much ancienter than his namesake surnamed the Wise. Fuller.

Resembling or containing gold; gold-colored; gilded.

Golden; gilded. Skelton.

ooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking. -- Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall.