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

Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper.

fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll.

Guilty. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A yellow-tailed worm or larva.

Gilded by means of voltaic electricity.

Not gilded; hence, not rewarded with gold.

xed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside. Pope.

ng curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration. [Obs.] Bacon. When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity. Shak. A screen accurately cut in tapiary work . . . with great curiosity. Evelin.

The back of a book. [Obs.] Books, all richly bound, with gilt dorses. Wood.

A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.

am 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 act or system of insuring against fire; also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes, in consideration of the payment of a premium…

r; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show. You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.

f English lifeguards, who attends his sovereign on state occasions; -- so called from the gilt rod presented to him by the sovereign when he receives his commission as colonel of the regiment. [Eng.] -- Gold thread. (a) A thread formed by twisting flatted gold over a thread of silk, with a wheel and iron bobbins; spun…

han age has been considered the golden age of English literature. -- Golden balls, three gilt balls used as a sign of a pawnbroker's office or shop; -- originally taken from the coat of arms of Lombardy, the first money lenders in London having been Lombards. -- Golden bull. See under Bull, an edict. -- Golden chain…

See Gilthead.

lk, or silk and cotton, and a weft of silk threads covered with gold (or silver), or with gilt. -- Lace leather, thin, oil-tanned leather suitable for cutting into lacings for machine belts. -- Lace lizard (Zoöl.), a large, aquatic, Australian lizard (Hydrosaurus giganteus), allied to the monitors. -- Lace paper, pa…

To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.

A small fish of the Mediterranean; a gilthead. See Gilthead (a).

Ornamented with perforations or dots. [Obs.] "Gilt bowls pounced and pierced." Holinshed.