gilt

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. A past tense and a past participle of gild¹.
2. adj. Covered with gold or gilt.
3. adj. Resembling gold, as in color or luster.
4. n. A thin layer of gold or something simulating gold that is applied in gilding.
5. n. Superficial brilliance or gloss.
6. n. Slang Money.
7. n. A young sow that has not farrowed.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Preterit of gild.
2. Gilded.
3. Of the color of gold; bright-yellow.
4. n. The material used in gilding.
5. An obsolete variant of gild.
6. n. Money; geld.
7. n. A young female pig.
8. n. A Middle English form of guilt.
9. n. One of a class of thieves.
10. A simplified spelling of guilt.
11. n. In archery, the innermost circle of the target; the gold.

Wiktionary

1. n. A thin layer of gold or other metal; gilding
2. n. money
3. n. A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged)
4. n. A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.
5. adj. golden coloured
6. v. simple past tense and past participle of gild.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A female pig, when young.
2. imp. & p. p. of gild.
3. Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow.
4. n. Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.
5. n. Money.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
2. n. a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold