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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According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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