gild
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gilds, 3rd person singular present; gilded, past participle; gilding, present participle; gilded, past tense;
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gilds, 3rd person singular present; gilded, past participle; gilding, present participle; gilded, past tense;
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Cover thinly with gold
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Give a specious or false brilliance to
- - the useless martyrs' deaths of the pilots gilded the operation
Web Definitions:
- decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold
- club: 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"
- (gildS)) or fraternities for mutual aid, among the ancient Saxons, resembled the epowot of,the Greeks. (Turner's Hist, of ike Anglo-Saxons^ iv. 10.) Compare also the ayon-cu, or love-feasts of the early Christians.
- The art of adhering thin metal, silver or gold leaf to a surface.
- To apply gold or other metallic leaf to the trim edges of a book.
- (55) paint them with golden blood
- Cover thinly with gold.