Definition of "gild"

gild¹

/ɡɪld/

verb
third-person singular simple present gilds, present participle gilding, simple past and past participle gilded or gilt
1. (transitive) To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.
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  High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt.
  1888 May, Oscar Wilde, “The Happy Prince”, in The Happy Prince and Other Tales, London: David Nutt, […], page 1
2. (transitive) To adorn.
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  I will make fast the doors, and gild myself With some more ducats, and be with you straight.
  c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene vi]
3. (transitive, cooking) To decorate with a golden surface appearance.
  Quotations
  Gild the entire outside with beaten egg yolk, and sprinkle it with grated parmesan.
  2008, Ivan P. Day, Cooking in Europe, 1650-1850, page 98
4. (transitive) To give a bright or pleasing aspect to.
  Quotations
  When sparkling stars twire not, thou gild'st the even.
  1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 28”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley
5. (transitive) To make appear drunk.

gild²

/ɡɪld/

noun
plural gilds
1. Obsolete spelling of guild
  Quotations
  No trade gild might be started without the consent of the whole body of hanasters, who would insist that the regulations were not harmful to the burgesses as a whole; […]
  1920, H. E. Salter, Munimenta Civitatis Oxonie, volume 71, page xxviii

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