gild

gild¹ (g

ld)

tr.v. gild·ed or gilt (g

lt), gild·ing, gilds

1. To cover with or as if with a thin layer of gold.

2. To give an often deceptively attractive or improved appearance to.

3. Archaic To smear with blood.

Idiom:

gild the lily

1. To adorn unnecessarily something already beautiful.

2. To make superfluous additions to what is already complete.

[Middle English gilden, from Old English gyldan; see ghel-² in Indo-European roots.]

gilder n.

gild² (g

ld)

Variant of guild.

gild /g

ld/ v. [T] gilded or gilt /g

lt/, gilding, gilds to cover with gold: He gilded the picture frame.

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