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Gilding

Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold.

  1. 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.
    --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.

Gilding

Gilding \Gild"ing\ (g[i^]ld"[i^]ng), n.

  1. The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold.

  2. Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any surface.

  3. 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gilding

"action of gilding," mid-15c.; "golden surface produced by gilding," 1630s; verbal noun from gild (v.).

Wiktionary
gilding

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The art of applying gold leaf to a surface 2 (context uncountable English) Gold leaf 3 (context countable English) A coating of gold, etc. vb. (present participle of gild English)

WordNet
gilding

n. a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold [syn: gilt]

Wikipedia
Gilding

The term gilding covers a number of decorative techniques for applying fine gold leaf or powder to solid surfaces such as wood, stone, or metal to give a thin coating of gold. A gilded object is described as "gilt". Where metal is gilded, it was traditionally silver in the West, to make silver-gilt (or vermeil) objects, but gilt-bronze is commonly used in China, and also called ormolu if it is Western. Methods of gilding include hand application and glueing, chemical gilding, and electroplating, the last also called gold plating. Parcel-gilt (partial gilt) objects are only gilded over part of their surfaces. This may mean that all of the inside, and none of the outside, of a chalice or similar vessel is gilded, or that patterns or images are made up by using a combination of gilt and un-gilt areas.

Usage examples of "gilding".

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.

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.

Thy Bucentaur is no longer the bravest craft that floats between Dalmatia and the islands, though her gilding may glitter brightest.

But when I heard him speak with beautiful flowers of rhetoric for the purpose of gilding the bitter pill, I could not help bursting into a joyous laughter, and I astounded his reverence when I expressed my readiness to go anywhere he might think right to send me.

But she was given no opportunity to do this, being taken into a handsome room with a good deal of gilding on its walls and a great many chairs and little tables, where Mevrouw van Duyl was sitting by the fire.

It may hate him who dares to scrutinise and expose -- to rase the gilding, and show base metal under it -- to penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but hate as it will, it is indebted to him.

Sunlight streamed into the vaulted interior, shining across the marmoreal pillars of the concourse and gilding the tapestries suspended between them.

Pummice, with his myrmidons, in aprons and paper caps, retouching the gilding.

Quite unalarmed, he smiled, hoisting his shoe in triumph to display the blot of foil gilding the sole.

Field blacksmith, had gone into partnership with a Domani cutler and a whitesmith from Almoth Plain, and Master Aydaer had hired three men and two women who knew furniture making and carving, and gilding as well, though there certainly was no gold lying about for that.

The rafters, forty feet above her head, had been freshly painted, their carved flowers touched up with crimson and cobalt and their edges freshly gilt, and the gilding around the house shrine of the Holy Widow Wortle had been renewed as well.

Erseiyr glided in from the west, silent as a stormbird, the sun gilding his dark red carapace.

Feldrin was lying lifeless on the floor, his arms two scorched stumps and his face burned away, and Tholone was on his back, dawing feebly at gilding from the smoldering banner that had melted onto his face.

Flakes the size of bonbons fell along the shingled roofs and rough-hewn sills, gilding the world with a dusting of finest sugar.