GILT

aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden

(adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; “long aureate (or golden) hair”; “a gold carpet”

gilt, gilding

(noun) a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold

GILD

gild, begild, engild

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

gilt (usually uncountable, plural gilts)

(uncountable) Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.

(uncountable, by extension) Gold-colored paint or other coating.

(uncountable, slang) Money.

(countable, finance) A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged)

(obsolete, uncountable) A gilded object, an object covered with gold.

Adjective

gilt (comparative more gilt, superlative most gilt)

Golden coloured.

Verb

gilt

simple past tense and past participle of gild

Etymology 2

See geld.

Noun

gilt (plural gilts)

A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.

Source: Wiktionary

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Gilt, n. Etym: [See Geld, v. t.] (Zoöl.)

Definition: A female pig, when young.

Gilt,

Definition: imp. & p. p. of Gild.

Gilt, p. p. & a.

Definition: Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow. "Gilt hair" Chaucer.

Gilt, n.

1. Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding. Shak.

2. Money. [Obs.] "The gilt of France." Shak.

GILD

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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