Gild /(gĭld)/

Gild

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Gilded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding

  1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.
    No more the rising sun shall gild the morn.
  2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
    Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day.
    — Trumbull.
  3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie.
  4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.]
    This grand liquior that hath gilded them.