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Begild

Begild \Be*gild"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Begilded or Begilt.] To gild.
--B. Jonson.

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begild

vb. (context transitive English) To gild; to cover with gold.

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begild

v. decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold [syn: gild, engild]

Usage examples of "begild".

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.

She came bravely enough to the showy entrance way, with the polished and begilded lobby, set with framed pictures out of the current attraction, leading up to the quiet box-office, but she could get no further.

She buys a couple of begilt Bristol boards at the Fancy Stationer’s, and paints her very best upon them—a shepherd with a red waistcoat on one, and a pink face smiling in the midst of a pencil landscape—a shepherdess on the other, crossing a little bridge, with a little dog, nicely shaded.