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English Dictionary: gild by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gild
n
  1. a formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"
    Synonym(s): club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order
v
  1. decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold
    Synonym(s): gild, begild, engild
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gild \Gild\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gilded} or {Gilt} ([?]); p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Gilding}.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold.
      [root]234. See {Gold}.]
      1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a
            golden color; to cause to look like gold. [bd]Gilded
            chariots.[b8] --Pope.
  
                     No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. --Pope.
  
      2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
  
                     Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm
                     evening of your day.                           --Trumbull.
  
      3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to
            embellish; as, to gild a lie. --Shak.
  
      4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.]
  
                     This grand liquior that hath gilded them. --Shak.
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