gild Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a formal association of people with similar interests
guild; club; society; social club; lodge; order.
- he joined a golf club
- they formed a small lunch society
- men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today
verb decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold
engild; begild.

AS. gyldan, from gold gold. See Gold.

imperfect & past participle Gilded or Gilt (); present participle & verbal noun Gilding

To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded chariots." Pope.
No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. Pope.
To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day. Trumbull.
To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie. Shak.
To make red with drinking. Obs.
This grand liquior that hath gilded them. Shak.