Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. A past tense and a past participle of gild1.
- adj. Covered with gold or gilt.
- adj. Resembling gold, as in color or luster.
- n. A thin layer of gold or something simulating gold that is applied in gilding.
- n. Superficial brilliance or gloss.
- n. Slang Money.
- n. A young sow that has not farrowed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Preterit of gild.
- Gilded.
- Of the color of gold; bright-yellow.
- n. The material used in gilding.
- An obsolete variant of gild.
- n. Money; geld.
- n. A young female pig.
- n. A Middle English form of guilt.
- n. One of a class of thieves.
- A simplified spelling of guilt.
- n. In archery, the innermost circle of the target; the gold.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.
- n. uncountable, slang Money.
- n. countable, finance A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged)
- adj. golden coloured
- n. A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of gild.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A female pig, when young.
- imp. & p. p. of gild.
- Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow.
- n. Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.
- n. obsolete Money.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
- n. a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold
Etymologies
- See geld. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, young sow, from Old Norse gyltr. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Queller had the first variety in gilt, meaning that it is gold-plated, and the second variety in copper.”
Queller Collection of Coin Patterns Sells for $8.36 Million (Part 1) : Coin Collecting News
“A Qing dynasty yellow-ground vase, decorated with flowers and edged in gilt, broke the world record for the most expensive single piece of Chinese art sold, at $32.5 million.”
Voice of America: Wealthy Chinese Buyers Break Records in Chinese Art Auctions
“It was a heavy, leather-bound folio, the spine facing the audience, with the title The Rime of the Ancient Mariner etched in gilt onto it.”
“Home-made chocolate truffles and amandines – an almond sweet – sit in gilt bowls, and slices of summer fruit glow gently in glass.”
“The originals hung in gilt frames in the grandest museums in the world, and tourists made pilgrimages to see them.”
“BELVOIR: Ah well-a-day for the poor gentlemen in gilt coaches.”
“If you're interested in gilt-edged accuracy, this is the one.”
“It requires the income derived from £2,000 in gilt edged securities to maintain a family in idleness.”
“That gentleman puts upon the back of his books the letters very much bolder than brass, in gilt, "Canada as It Is.”
“We now have our special committee, and our room, with "Woman Suffrage" in gilt letters, over the door.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gilt’.
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Swine
For more aporkalyptic fun, see madmouth's Everything's better with a pig in it.
For "references to the Dursleys in Wizard People, Dear Reader, Brad Neely's cosmos-shattering voiceover ...swine, pig, hog, boar, pork, pork bellies, hog cholera, swineherd, pigsty, swine flu, oink, pig in a blanket and 188 more...
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Steampunk
Words used quite often in steampunk
ansible, airship, chymical, valve, clockwork, dirigible, thaumaturgy, copper, bronze, difference engine, gear, rivets and 516 more...
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words to describe everything GOLD
emotions, reactions, senses, how do we feel when we wear gold, generational, memories,
Sensual, illuminated, history, intricate, classic, bright, luxe, sparkly, splashy, metallic, perfection, gilt and 30 more...
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bookwords
Words that apply to the description and condition of books
foxing, cocked, endpaper, scuffing, spine, impression, marginal, covers, browning, edition, printing, dust jacket and 44 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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Notre Dame de Paris
From Notre Dame de Paris by good ole Victor Hugo. (Also called The Hunchback of Notre Dame.)
cuivres, diable, hawthorn, provost, epithalamium, affrighted, mendicants, vagrants, Styx, chimeras, coif, matagrabolise and 196 more...
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Wharton, Edith. Age of Innocence. 1920
A list of difficult words for L2-12 learners.
Faust, erection, metropolitan, splendor, shabby, conservatives, cherished, inconvenient, clung, acoustics, coupe, scramble and 261 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Rare Books
Words used in the rare book trade (of which I was once a part). For more about how such books are put together, see hernesheir's excellent The Bindery.
foxing, gilt, headband, bumped, endpaper, leaf, colophon, vellum, laid paper, boards, device, engraving and 168 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (G)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
gable, gaia, gala, galaxy, gallows, gambol, garden, garland, garnet, gauntlet, gazebo, gazelle and 105 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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Tolland's list
Those I've come across and try to keep fresh within my mind.
clandestine, dysphoric, indictive, vigil, fractious, assiduous, indefatigable, ubiquitous, insidious, paroicous, aplomb, sangfroid and 654 more...
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The Confidence Man
Words to remember from Melville's "The Confidence Man"
chevalier, hawk, unalloyed, ex-officio, scruple, pertinacity, epithet, gilt, bedizen, embrasure, escritoire, squaw and 278 more...
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SAVED FAVES
Listless no more,
arrears, addle, akimbo, allure, appurtenance, bibelot, bibulous, bifurcate, blither, boodle, crapulous, coprolite and 122 more...
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Red Seas Under Red Skies
Words and phrase from Scott Lynch's book, Red Seas Under Red Skies.
legate, pugnacity, weevil, steady as a dry-d..., chit, sans, apprise, forfend, ken, expatriate, enclave, scrubs and 220 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gilt.
knitandpurl The "young female pig" definition was new to me, too. I just came across it:
"All the cattle brought handsome sums, and then it was the pigs' turn. One by one they were displayed: the gilts, the shoats, the cranky old sow and her litter of half-grown piglets."
Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright, pp 239-240 of the 2002 hardcover edition Jul 12, 2011
ruzuzu Oh! I didn't even see the cartoon. It's great, oroboros! Jun 24, 2011
oroboros I'm just waaaaaaay outta the loop! (but wanted to link the cartoon at least). Jun 24, 2011
ruzuzu It's already on my swine list. :-) Jun 24, 2011
oroboros A young female pig...who knew? Jun 24, 2011
jinglebelljosie a young, female pig Aug 21, 2008