Word Meanings - CHECKLATON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Ciclatoun. 2. Gilded leather. Spenser.
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- LEATHERWOOD
A small branching shrub , with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray. - GILD
Etym: 1. 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. 2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. Let oft good humor, - LEATHERBACK
A large sea turtle , having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc. - LEATHERY
Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Grew. - GILDALE
A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share. - GILDER
One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold. - CICLATOUN
A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages. His robe was of ciclatoun, That coste many a Jane. Chaucer. - LEATHER
1. The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively. 2. The skin. Note: Leather is much used adjectively in the sense of made of, relating to, or like, leather. Leather - LEATHERET; LEATHERETTE
An imitation of leather, made of paper and cloth. - LEATHERN
Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse. "A leathern girdle about his loins." Matt. iii. 4. - LEATHERHEAD
The friar bird. - GILDING
1. The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold. 2. Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any surface. 3. Any superficial coating or appearance, - GILDEN
Gilded. Holland. - SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faƫrie Queene." - LEATHERNECK
The sordid friar bird of Australia . - OVERGILD
To gild over; to varnish. - ENGILD
To gild; to make splendent. Fair Helena, who most engilds the night. Shak. - ELECTRO-GILDING
The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity. - DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors. - OCTOGILD
A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the thing. - OVERLEATHER
Upper leather. Shak. - REGILD
To gild anew. - WEREGILD
The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer. Blackstone. (more info) life + gild payment - WHITLEATHER
The paxwax. See Paxwax. (more info) 1. Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather. - BEGILD
To gild. B. Jonson. - WATER GILDING
The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.