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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To gild: as, “bride-laces begilt,” B. Jonson, King's Entertainment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To gild.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To gild; to cover with gold.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold

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be- +‎ gild

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