GILD

club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order

(noun) 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”

gild, begild, engild

(verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Verb

gild (third-person singular simple present gilds, present participle gilding, simple past and past participle gilt or gilded)

(transitive) To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.

(transitive) To adorn.

(transitive, cooking) To decorate with a golden surface appearance.

(transitive) To give a bright or pleasing aspect to.

(transitive) To make appear drunk.

Etymology 2

Noun

gild (plural gilds)

Obsolete form of guild.

Anagrams

• DILG, glid

Source: Wiktionary


Gild, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt (p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding.] Etym: [AS. gyldan, from gold gold. sq. root234. See 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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