Word Meanings - GILDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.

WHOSESOEVER
The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
OCCUPATION
1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
OVERLAYING
A superficial covering; a coating.
WHOSE
The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
OVERLAYER
One who overlays; that with which anything is overlaid.
OVERLAY
To put an overlay on. (more info) 1. To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. As when a cloud his beams
INOCCUPATION
Want of occupation.
DISOCCUPATION
The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.
PREOCCUPATION
1. The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession. 2. Anticipation of objections. South.