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

gold \gold\ g=old, golde \golde\, goolde \goolde\
   g=oold, n. bot.
   an old english name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold
   calendula, according to dr. prior, but in chaucer perhaps
   the turnsole.
   1913 webster
see also:
calendula 

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

gold \gold\ g=old, n. as. gold; akin to d. goud, os.  g.
   gold, icel. gull, sw.  dan. guld, goth. gulthorn, russ. 
   oslav. zlato; prob. akin to e. yellow. root49, 234. see
   yellow, and cf. gild, v. t.
   1913 webster
   1. chem. a metallic element of atomic number 79,
      constituting the most precious metal used as a common
      commercial medium of exchange. it has a characteristic
      yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known
      specific gravity 19.32, is soft, and very malleable and
      ductile. it is quite unalterable by heat melting point
      1064.4deg c, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and
      therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry.
      symbol au aurum. atomic weight 196.97.
      1913 webster

   note: native gold contains usually eight to ten per cent of
         silver, but often much more. as the amount of silver
         increases, the color becomes whiter and the specific
         gravity lower. gold is very widely disseminated, as in
         the sands of many rivers, but in very small quantity.
         it usually occurs in quartz veins gold quartz, in
         slate and metamorphic rocks, or in sand and alluvial
         soil, resulting from the disintegration of such rocks.
         it also occurs associated with other metallic
         substances, as in auriferous pyrites, and is combined
         with tellurium in the minerals petzite, calaverite,
         sylvanite, etc. pure gold is too soft for ordinary use,
         and is hardened by alloying with silver and copper, the
         latter giving a characteristic reddish tinge. see
         carat. gold also finds use in gold foil, in the
         pigment purple of cassius, and in the chloride, which
         is used as a toning agent in photography.
         1913 webster

   2. money; riches; wealth.
      1913 webster

            for me, the gold of france did not seduce. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. a yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower
      tipped with gold.
      1913 webster

   4. figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of
      gold. --shak.
      1913 webster

   age of gold. see golden age, under golden.

   dutch gold, fool's gold, gold dust, etc. see under
      dutch, dust, etc.

   gold amalgam, a mineral, found in columbia and california,
      composed of gold and mercury.

   gold beater, one whose occupation is to beat gold into gold
      leaf.

   gold beater's skin, the prepared outside membrane of the
      large intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves
      of metal during the process of gold-beating.

   gold beetle zool., any small gold-colored beetle of the
      family chrysomelidae; -- called also golden beetle.
      

   gold blocking, printing with gold leaf, as upon a book
      cover, by means of an engraved block. --knight.

   gold cloth. see cloth of gold, under cloth.

   gold coast, a part of the coast of guinea, in west africa.
      

   gold cradle. mining see cradle, n., 7.

   gold diggings, the places, or region, where gold is found
      by digging in sand and gravel from which it is separated
      by washing.

   gold end, a fragment of broken gold or jewelry.

   gold-end man.
      a a buyer of old gold or jewelry.
      b a goldsmith's apprentice.
      c an itinerant jeweler. "i know him not: he looks like a
          gold-end man." --b. jonson.

   gold fever, a popular mania for gold hunting.

   gold field, a region in which are deposits of gold.

   gold finder.
      a one who finds gold.
      b one who empties privies. obs.  low --swift.

   gold flower, a composite plant with dry and persistent
      yellow radiating involucral scales, the helichrysum
      stoechas of southern europe. there are many south
      african species of the same genus.

   gold foil, thin sheets of gold, as used by dentists and
      others. see gold leaf.

   gold knobs or gold knoppes bot., buttercups.

   gold lace, a kind of lace, made of gold thread.

   gold latten, a thin plate of gold or gilded metal.

   gold leaf, gold beaten into a film of extreme thinness, and
      used for gilding, etc. it is much thinner than gold foil.
      

   gold lode mining, a gold vein.

   gold mine, a place where gold is obtained by mining
      operations, as distinguished from diggings, where it is
      extracted by washing. cf. gold diggings above.

   gold nugget, a lump of gold as found in gold mining or
      digging; -- called also a pepito.

   gold paint. see gold shell.

   gold pheasant, or golden pheasant. zool. see under
      pheasant.

   gold plate, a general name for vessels, dishes, cups,
      spoons, etc., made of gold.

   mosaic gold. see under mosaic.
      1913 webster
see also:
yellow gild aurum carat age of gold golden age 
golden dutch gold fool's gold gold dust dutch 
dust gold amalgam gold beater gold beater's skin gold beetle 
chrysomelidae golden beetle gold blocking gold cloth cloth of gold 
cloth gold coast gold cradle cradle gold diggings 
gold end gold-end man gold fever gold field gold finder 
gold flower helichrysum stoechas gold foil gold leaf gold knobs 
gold knoppes gold lace gold latten gold lode gold mine 
gold nugget pepito gold paint gold shell gold pheasant 
golden pheasant pheasant gold plate mosaic gold mosaic 

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

watch \watch\ wo^ch, n. oe. wacche, as. waecce, fr.
   wacian to wake; akin to d. wacht, waak, g. wacht, wache.
   root134. see wake, v. i. 
   1913 webster
   1. the act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful,
      vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close
      observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance;
      formerly, a watching or guarding by night.
      1913 webster

            shepherds keeping watch by night.     --milton.
      1913 webster

            all the long night their mournful watch they keep.
                                                  --addison.
      1913 webster

   note: watch was formerly distinguished from ward, the former
         signifying a watching or guarding by night, and the
         latter a watching, guarding, or protecting by day
         hence, they were not unfrequently used together,
         especially in the phrase to keep watch and ward, to
         denote continuous and uninterrupted vigilance or
         protection, or both watching and guarding. this
         distinction is now rarely recognized, watch being used
         to signify a watching or guarding both by night and by
         day, and ward, which is now rarely used, having simply
         the meaning of guard, or protection, without reference
         to time.
         1913 webster

               still, when she slept, he kept both watch and
               ward.                              --spenser.
         1913 webster

               ward, guard, or custodia, is chiefly applied to
               the daytime, in order to apprehend rioters, and
               robbers on the highway . . . watch, is properly
               applicable to the night only, . . . and it begins
               when ward ends, and ends when that begins.
                                                  --blackstone.
         1913 webster

   2. one who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body
      of watchmen; a sentry; a guard.
      1913 webster

            pilate said unto them, ye have a watch; go your way,
            make it as sure as ye can.            --matt. xxvii.
                                                  65.
      1913 webster

   3. the post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a
      watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
      1913 webster

            he upbraids iago, that he made him
            brave me upon the watch.              --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. the period of the night during which a person does duty as
      a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a
      sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night.
      1913 webster

            i did stand my watch upon the hill.   --shak.
      1913 webster

            might we but hear . . .
            or whistle from the lodge, or village cock
            count the night watches to his feathery dames.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   5. a small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the
      person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.
      1913 webster

   note: watches are often distinguished by the kind of
         escapement used, as an anchor watch, a lever watch,
         a chronometer watch, etc. see the note under
         escapement, n., 3; also, by the kind of case, as a
         gold or silver watch, an open-faced watch, a
         hunting watch, or hunter, etc.
         1913 webster

   6. naut.
      a an allotted portion of time, usually four hour for
          standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. cf.
          dogwatch.
      b that part, usually one half, of the officers and crew,
          who together attend to the working of a vessel for an
          allotted time, usually four hours. the watches are
          designated as the port watch, and the starboard
          watch.
          1913 webster

   anchor watch naut., a detail of one or more men who keep
      watch on deck when a vessel is at anchor.

   to be on the watch, to be looking steadily for some event.
      

   watch and ward law, the charge or care of certain
      officers to keep a watch by night and a guard by day in
      towns, cities, and other districts, for the preservation
      of the public peace. --wharton. --burrill.

   watch and watch naut., the regular alternation in being
      on watch and off watch of the two watches into which a
      ship's crew is commonly divided.

   watch barrel, the brass box in a watch, containing the
      mainspring.

   watch bell naut., a bell struck when the half-hour glass
      is run out, or at the end of each half hour. --craig.

   watch bill naut., a list of the officers and crew of a
      ship as divided into watches, with their stations.
      --totten.

   watch case, the case, or outside covering, of a watch;
      also, a case for holding a watch, or in which it is kept.
      

   watch chain. same as watch guard, below.

   watch clock, a watchman's clock; see under watchman.

   watch fire, a fire lighted at night, as a signal, or for
      the use of a watch or guard.

   watch glass.
      a a concavo-convex glass for covering the face, or dial,
          of a watch; -- also called watch crystal.
      b naut. a half-hour glass used to measure the time of
          a watch on deck.

   watch guard, a chain or cord by which a watch is attached
      to the person.

   watch gun naut., a gun sometimes fired on shipboard at 8
      p. m., when the night watch begins.

   watch light, a low-burning lamp used by watchers at night;
      formerly, a candle having a rush wick.

   watch night, the last night of the year; -- so called by
      the methodists, moravians, and others, who observe it by
      holding religious meetings lasting until after midnight.
      

   watch paper, an old-fashioned ornament for the inside of a
      watch case, made of paper cut in some fanciful design, as
      a vase with flowers, etc.

   watch tackle naut., a small, handy purchase, consisting
      of a tailed double block, and a single block with a hook.
      1913 webster
see also:
wake anchor watch lever watch chronometer watch escapement gold 
silver watch open-faced watch hunting watch hunter dogwatch 
port watch starboard watch anchor watch to be on the watch watch and ward 
watch and watch watch barrel watch bell watch bill watch case 
watch chain watch guard watch clock watchman watch fire 
watch glass watch crystal watch guard watch gun watch light 
watch night watch paper watch tackle 

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

aluminium \al`umin"ium\ a^l`-umi^n"i^u^m, n. l.
   alumen. see alum. chem.
   same as aluminum, chiefly british in usage.
   1913 webster

   aluminium bronze or gold, a pale gold-colored alloy of
      aluminium and copper, used for journal bearings, etc.
      1913 webster
see also:
alum aluminum aluminium bronze gold 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

gold
     adj 1: made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome
            of the capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons"
            syn: golden, gilded
     2: having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long
        aureate or golden hair"; "a gold carpet" syn: aureate,
         gilded, gilt, golden
     n 1: coins made of gold
     2: a deep yellow color; "an amber light illuminated the room";
        "he admired the gold of her hair" syn: amber
     3: a soft yellow malleable ductile trivalent and univalent
        metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and
        alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but
        is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia syn: au, atomic
        number 79
     4: great wealth; "whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,
        and almost every vice--almighty gold"--ben jonson
     5: something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness
        or superiority etc.; "the child was as good as gold"; "she
        has a heart of gold"
see also:
golden gilded aureate gilt amber au 
atomic number 79 

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

214 moby thesaurus words for "gold":
   affluence, aluminum, americium, and pence, assets, aureate,
   aureateness, auric, bar, barium, beige, beryllium, bismuth,
   bottomless purse, brass, brassy, brazen, bronze, bronzy, buff,
   buff-yellow, bulging purse, bullion, cadmium, calcium, canary,
   canary-yellow, cash, cerium, cesium, chrome, chromium,
   circulating medium, citron, citron-yellow, cobalt, coin gold,
   coin silver, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, copper, coppery,
   cream, creamy, cupreous, cuprous, currency, dollars, dysprosium,
   easy circumstances, ecru, embarras de richesses, emergency money,
   erbium, europium, fallow, fallowness, ferrous, ferruginous,
   filthy lucre, flaxen, fortune, fractional currency, gadolinium,
   gallium, germanium, gilded, gilt, gold nugget, gold-colored,
   gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, handsome fortune, hard cash,
   hard currency, high income, high tax bracket, holmium,
   independence, indium, ingot, iridium, iron, ironlike, lanthanum,
   lead, leaden, legal tender, lemon, lemon-yellow, lithium, lucre,
   luteolous, lutescent, lutetium, luxuriousness, magnesia, magnesium,
   mammon, managed currency, manganese, material wealth,
   medium of exchange, mercurial, mercurous, mercury, mintage,
   molybdenum, money, money to burn, moneybags, necessity money,
   neodymium, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, niobium, nugget, ocherish,
   ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, opulence,
   opulency, or, osmium, palladium, pelf, pewter, pewtery, phosphorus,
   platinum, polonium, possessions, postage currency, postal currency,
   potassium, pounds, praseodymium, precious metals, primrose,
   primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, promethium, property,
   prosperity, prosperousness, protactinium, quicksilver, radium,
   rhenium, riches, richness, rubidium, ruthenium, saffron,
   saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, samarium, sand-colored,
   sandy, scandium, scrip, shillings, silver, silver-plated, silvery,
   six-figure income, sodium, soft currency, specie, steel, steely,
   sterling, straw, straw-colored, strontium, substance, tantalum,
   technetium, terbium, thallium, the almighty dollar, the wherewith,
   the wherewithal, thulium, tin, tinny, titanium, treasure, tungsten,
   upper bracket, uranium, vanadium, wealth, wealthiness, wolfram,
   xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellow stuff, yellowish, yellowishness,
   yellowness, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium

[7] : Elements database 20001107

gold
symbol: au
atomic number: 79
atomic weight: 196.96655
gold is gold colored. it is the most malleable and ductile metal known.
there is only one stable isotope of gold, and five radioisotopes of gold,
au-195 being the most stable with a half-life of 186 days. gold is used
as a monetary standard, in jewelry, dentistry, electronics. au-198 is used
in treating cancer and some other medical conditions. gold has been known
to exist as far back as 2600 bc. gold comes from the anglo-saxon word gold.
its symbol, au, comes from the latin word aurum, which means gold. gold is
not particularly toxic, however it is known to cause damage to the liver
and kidneys in some.

[8] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

gold
   1. heb. zahab, so called from its yellow colour ex. 25:11; 1
   chr. 28:18; 2 chr. 3:5.
   
     2. heb. segor, from its compactness, or as being enclosed or
   treasured up; thus precious or "fine gold" 1 kings 6:20; 7:49.
   
     3. heb. paz, native or pure gold job 28:17; ps. 19:10;
   21:3, etc..
   
     4. heb. betzer, "ore of gold or silver" as dug out of the
   mine job 36:19, where it means simply riches.
   
     5. heb. kethem, i.e., something concealed or separated job
   28:16,19; ps. 45:9; prov. 25:12. rendered "golden wedge" in
   isa. 13:12.
   
     6. heb. haruts, i.e., dug out; poetic for gold prov. 8:10;
   16:16; zech. 9:3.
   
     gold was known from the earliest times gen. 2:11. it was
   principally used for ornaments gen. 24:22. it was very
   abundant 1 chr. 22:14; nah. 2:9; dan. 3:1. many tons of it
   were used in connection with the temple 2 chr. 1:15. it was
   found in arabia, sheba, and ophir 1 kings 9:28; 10:1; job
   28:16, but not in palestine.
   
     in dan. 2:38, the babylonian empire is spoken of as a "head of
   gold" because of its great riches; and babylon was called by
   isaiah 14:4 the "golden city" r.v. marg., "exactress,"
   adopting the reading _marhebah_, instead of the usual word
   _madhebah_.
   

[9] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

gold. a metal used in making money, or coin. it is pure when the metal is 
unmixed with any other. standard gold, is gold mixed with some other metal, 
called alloy. vide money. 

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