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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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Act of gilding. [Obs.]

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

. -- 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…

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.

Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding. Shak.

or gilded metal. -- Gold leaf, gold beaten into a film of extreme thinness, and used for gilding, etc. It is much thinner than gold foil. -- Gold lode (Mining), a gold vein. -- Gold mine, a place where gold is obtained by mining operations, as distinguished from diggings, where it is extracted by washing. Cf. Gold d…

A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.

The act or process of gilding or covering with gold.

cover with a film; to coat thinly; as, to infilm one metal with another in the process of gilding; to infilm the glass of a mirror. [R.]

A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss.

Having a dull surface; unburnished; as, matted gold leaf or gilding. Matted glass, glass ornamented with figures on a dull ground.