[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gild \gild\ gi^ld, v. t. imp.  p. p. gilded or gilt
   ?; p. pr.  vb. n. gilding. as. gyldan, from gold gold.
   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.
      1913 webster

            no more the rising sun shall gild the morn. --pope.
      1913 webster

   2. to make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
      1913 webster

            let oft good humor, mild and gay,
            gild the calm evening of your day.    --trumbull.
      1913 webster

   3. to give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to
      embellish; as, to gild a lie. --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. to make red with drinking. obs.
      1913 webster

            this grand liquior that hath gilded them. --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
gilded gilt gilding gold 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gilt \gilt\, n. see geld, v. t. zool.
   a female pig, when young.
   1913 webster
see also:
geld 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gilt \gilt\,
   imp.  p. p. of gild.
   1913 webster
see also:
gild 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gilt \gilt\, p. p.  a.
   gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden
   yellow. "gilt hair" --chaucer.
   1913 webster

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gilt \gilt\, n.
   1. gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of
      a thing; gilding. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. money. obs. "the gilt of france." --shak. gilt-edge

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

gilt
     see gild
see also:
gild 

[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0

gild
     n : 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" syn: club, society, guild, lodge, order
     v : decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold syn:
          begild, engild
     also: gilt
see also:
club society guild lodge order begild 
engild gilt 

[8] : WordNet (r) 2.0

gilt
     adj : having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long
           aureate or golden hair"; "a gold carpet" syn: aureate,
            gilded, gold, golden
     n : a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold syn:
          gilding
see also:
aureate gilded gold golden gilding 

[9] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

199 moby thesaurus words for "gilt":
   acting, affectation, appearance, attitudinizing, aureate, auric,
   barrow, beige, bluff, bluffing, blunt, boar, boodle, brass, brassy,
   bravery, brazen, bread, bronze, bronzy, bucks, buff, buff-yellow,
   cabbage, canary, canary-yellow, cheating, chiffon, chips, citron,
   citron-yellow, clinquant, color, coloring, copper, coppery, cream,
   creamy, cupreous, cuprous, deception, delusion, dinero, disguise,
   dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, dough, ecru, facade,
   face, fakery, faking, fallow, false air, false front, false show,
   falsity, feigning, feint, ferrous, ferruginous, festoons, finery,
   flaxen, folderol, foofaraw, four-flushing, fraud, frilliness,
   frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, front, froufrou,
   fuss, gaiety, gaudery, gelt, gilded, gilding, gingerbread, gloss,
   gold, gold-colored, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, grease,
   green, green stuff, hog, humbug, humbuggery, imposture, iron,
   ironlike, jack, kale, lead, leaden, lemon, lemon-yellow, luteolous,
   lutescent, masquerade, mazuma, mercurial, mercurous,
   meretriciousness, moolah, mopus, nickel, nickelic, nickeline,
   ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry,
   oil of palms, ointment, oof, ooftish, or, ostentation,
   outward show, paste, pewter, pewtery, pig, piggy, piglet, pigling,
   pinchbeck, playacting, porker, pose, posing, posture, pretense,
   pretension, pretext, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow,
   quicksilver, razorback, representation, rhino, rocks, saffron,
   saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored, sandy,
   seeming, semblance, sham, shekels, shoat, show, silver,
   silver-plated, silvery, simoleons, simulacrum, simulation, sow,
   speciousness, spondulics, steel, steely, straw, straw-colored,
   suckling pig, sugar, superfluity, swine, the needful, tin, tinny,
   tinsel, trappings, trickery, trumpery, tusker, varnish, wampum,
   wild boar, window dressing, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish

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