Found 2 items, similar to gilt.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: gilt gilt See gild 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] [also: gilt] gild v : decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold [syn: begild, engild] [also: gilt] gilt adj : having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; “long aureate (or golden) hair”; “a gold carpet” [syn: aureate, gilded, gold, golden] gilt n : a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold [syn: gilding]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Gilt Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold. [root]234. 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] Gilt \Gilt\, n. [See Geld, v. t.] (Zo["o]l.) A female pig, when young. [1913 Webster] Gilt \Gilt\, p. p. & a. Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow. “Gilt hair” --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Gilt \Gilt\, imp. & p. p. of Gild. [1913 Webster] 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.