gilt
 鍍金,表面的裝飾,小母豬(a.)鍍金的(v.)(vbl.)gild的過去式和過去分詞


 gilt /ˈgɪlt/ 名詞
 鍍金的,金色的,鍍金材料


 Gilt, n.
 1. Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.
 2. Money. [Obs.] “The gilt of France.”

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 Gilt, imp. & p. p. of Gild.


 Gilt n.  Zool. A female pig, when young.


 Gilt, p. p. & a. Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow. “Gilt hair”


 Gild v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt (░); 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. “Gilded chariots.”
    No more the rising sun shall gild the morn.   --Pope.
 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.   --Shak.

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 gilt
      See gild


 gild
      n : a formal association of people with similar interests; "he
          joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society";
          "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen
          today" [syn: club, society, guild, lodge, order]
      v : decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold [syn:
           begild, engild]
      [also: gilt]


 gilt
      adj : having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long
            aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet" [syn: aureate,
             gilded, gold, golden]
      n : a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold [syn:
           gilding]