Crossword clues for gild
gild
- Put on a golden coat
- Put on a gold coat
- Plate, in a way
- Make into an ornament, perhaps
- Give an expensive coat to?
- Give an expensive coat to
- Give a valuable coat to
- Give a valuable coat
- Decorate unnecessarily
- Decorate richly
- Decorate lavishly
- Decorate elegantly
- Deceptively adorn
- Cover in gold
- Cover in fancy metal
- Cover expensively
- Coat, as jewelry
- Coat with a precious metal
- Coat gaudily
- Apply an opulent coat
- Adorn, as some jewelry
- Adorn ornately
- the lily
- --- the lily
- ___ the lily (overembellish)
- ___ the lily (add too much decoration)
- __ the lily: overembellish
- __ the lily: ornament to excess
- Decorate expensively
- Decorate, as a book
- Make deceptively attractive
- Apply gold leaf to
- ___ the lily (overdo it)
- Richly decorate
- Embellish richly
- Put a coat on
- Richly adorn
- Impart a false brilliance to
- A formal association of people with similar interests
- Decorate a lily
- Coat superficially
- Aurify
- Try in vain to improve a lily
- Coat with a gold color
- Overlay with gold
- Add unnecessarily
- Adorn, in a way
- Young woman shorn of resistance finally consented: don’t do this to Lily!
- ___ the lily (overly embellish)
- Coat with gold leaf
- Cover with gold leaf
- Adorn unnecessarily
- Coat, as a lily
- Adorn richly
- Overlay, in a way
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold.
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To overlay 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.
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To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day.
--Trumbull. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie.
--Shak.-
To make red with drinking. [Obs.]
This grand liquior that hath gilded them.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of guild English) vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf. 2 (context transitive English) To adorn. 3 (context transitive English) To make appear drunk.
WordNet
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Gild may refer to:
- Gilding, the application of gold leaf to other material
- Guild, an association of craftsmen
Usage examples of "gild".
To her all the wreckage of the slums, all the woe lying beneath gilded life, all the abominations, all the tortures that remain unknown, were carried.
And while he still knew that the slim length of thousand-folded steel and hand-cast gilded bronze was more than proficient enough to see him elevated from apprentice smith to master and therefore to adulthood, he was not at all certain it would suffice to pass one final, and more important, muster.
She could see the Alfa parked below, the moonlight gilding its dark green paint.
With the lac ammoniacum thus prepared, draw with a pencil, or write with a pen on paper, or vellum, the intended figure or letters of the gilding.
First we passed the Aureate, vast twin gilded domes of the Breasts on the skyline.
His Majesty sat on a low dais, in a gilded and padded chair beneath a baldachin hung behind and on either side with weighty purple velvet to shut out the draughts.
Petersburg just as the first rays of the sun began to gild the horizon.
The furnishings, too, were all gilded and begemmed, bed and chairs and benches, wardrobes and chests and washstand.
And then as regarded fashion, it might perhaps not be beyond the power of a Mrs Proudie to begild the word with a newly burnished gilding.
The enclosure of the bema, with its columns and entablatures, was of silver gilt, and set with gems and pearls.
Delicately carved and lightly gilded white boiserie paneled the walls.
When Albert returned to his mother, he found her in the boudoir reclining in a large velvet armchair, the whole room so obscure that only the shining spangle, fastened here and there to the drapery, and the angles of the gilded frames of the pictures, showed with some degree of brightness in the gloom.
Thy Bucentaur is no longer the bravest craft that floats between Dalmatia and the islands, though her gilding may glitter brightest.
Penobscot Building and the second Buhl Building colored like an Indian belt, the New Union Trust Building, the Cadillac Tower, the Fisher Building with its gilded roof.
The bureaucrat stood before a set of gilded doors that opened into the Hall of Supreme Harmony.