Word Meanings - GILDEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Gilded. Holland.
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- HOLLANDAISE SAUCE; HOLLANDAISE
A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar. - 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, - GILDALE
A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share. - HOLLAND
A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands. - HOLLANDS
See HOLLAND (more info) 1. Gin made in Holland. 2. pl. - HOLLANDISH
Relating to Holland; Dutch. - GILDER
One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold. - HOLLANDER
1. A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman. 2. A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner. - 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. - 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. - OCTOGILD
A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the thing. - 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 - 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. - ORFGILD
Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle. Cowell.