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Gild
(gcide)
Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold.
[root]234. See Gold.]
1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a
golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded
chariots." --Pope.
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No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. --Pope.
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2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
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Let oft good humor, mild and gay,
Gild the calm evening of your day. --Trumbull.
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3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to
embellish; as, to gild a lie. --Shak.
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4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.]
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This grand liquior that hath gilded them. --Shak.
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gild
(wn)
gild
n 1: 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, social club, society, guild,
gild, lodge, order]
v 1: decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold
[syn: gild, begild, engild]
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colorful \colorful\ adj.
1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.

Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,
shot}; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing;
prismatic; psychedelic; {red, ruddy, flushed,
empurpled}]

Syn: colourful.
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2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless
or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious;
flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; {flashy, gaudy,
jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; picturesque]
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3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and
monochrome.

Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; {amber,
brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; amethyst; {auburn,
reddish-brown}; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden;
azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; {bicolor,
bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue,
bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful,
blush-colored, rosy}; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy;
brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; {canary,
canary-yellow}; caramel, caramel brown; carnation;
chartreuse; chestnut; dun; {earth-colored,
earthlike}; fuscous; {green, greenish, light-green,
dark-green}; jade, jade-green; khaki; {lavender,
lilac}; mauve; moss green, mosstone; {motley,
multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,
painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
varicolored, varicoloured}; mousy, mouse-colored;
ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive;
orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish;
purple, violet, purplish; {red, blood-red, carmine,
cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,
scarlet}; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red;
rust, rusty, rust-colored; {snuff, snuff-brown,
snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,
snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel,
brownish-orange}; stone, stone-gray; {straw-color,
straw-colored, straw-coloured}; tan; tangerine;
tawny; ultramarine; umber; {vermilion,
vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; yellow, yellowish;
yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; {blae
bluish-black or gray-blue)}; coral; creamy; {cress
green, cresson, watercress}; hazel; {honey,
honey-colored}; hued(postnominal); magenta;
maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green;
sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark,
light.]

Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
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Begild
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Begild \Be*gild"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Begilded or Begilt.]
To gild. --B. Jonson.
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Begilded
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Begild \Be*gild"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Begilded or Begilt.]
To gild. --B. Jonson.
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Electro-gilding
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Electro-gilding \E*lec`tro-gild"ing\, n.
The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of
voltaic electricity.
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Engild
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Engild \En*gild"\, v. t.
To gild; to make splendent.
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Fair Helena, who most engilds the night. --Shak.
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Fire gilding
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Fire \Fire\ (f[imac]r), n. [OE. fir, fyr, fur AS. f[=y]r; akin
to D. vuur, OS. & OHG. fiur, G. feuer, Icel. f[=y]ri,
f[=u]rr, Gr. py^r, and perh. to L. purus pure, E. pure Cf.
Empyrean, Pyre.]
1. The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of
bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
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Note: The form of fire exhibited in the combustion of gases
in an ascending stream or current is called flame.
Anciently, fire, air, earth, and water were regarded as
the four elements of which all things are composed.
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2. Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a
stove or a furnace.
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3. The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.
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4. Anything which destroys or affects like fire.
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5. Ardor of passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth;
consuming violence of temper.
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he had fire in his temper. --Atterbury.
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6. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral
enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and zeal.
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And bless their critic with a poet's fire. --Pope.
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7. Splendor; brilliancy; luster; hence, a star.
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Stars, hide your fires. --Shak.
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As in a zodiac
representing the heavenly fires. --Milton.
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8. Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.
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9. The discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were
exposed to a heavy fire.
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Blue fire, Red fire, Green fire (Pyrotech.),
compositions of various combustible substances, as
sulphur, niter, lampblack, etc., the flames of which are
colored by various metallic salts, as those of antimony,
strontium, barium, etc.

Fire alarm
(a) A signal given on the breaking out of a fire.
(b) An apparatus for giving such an alarm.

Fire annihilator, a machine, device, or preparation to be
kept at hand for extinguishing fire by smothering it with
some incombustible vapor or gas, as carbonic acid.

Fire balloon.
(a) A balloon raised in the air by the buoyancy of air
heated by a fire placed in the lower part.
(b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite
at a regulated height. --Simmonds.

Fire bar, a grate bar.

Fire basket, a portable grate; a cresset. --Knight.

Fire beetle. (Zool.) See in the Vocabulary.

Fire blast, a disease of plants which causes them to appear
as if burnt by fire.

Fire box, the chamber of a furnace, steam boiler, etc., for
the fire.

Fire brick, a refractory brick, capable of sustaining
intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or
of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and
used for lining fire boxes, etc.

Fire brigade, an organized body of men for extinguished
fires.

Fire bucket. See under Bucket.

Fire bug, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through
mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac.
[U.S.]

Fire clay. See under Clay.

Fire company, a company of men managing an engine in
extinguishing fires.

Fire cross. See Fiery cross. [Obs.] --Milton.

Fire damp. See under Damp.

Fire dog. See Firedog, in the Vocabulary.

Fire drill.
(a) A series of evolutions performed by fireman for
practice.
(b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by
rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; --
used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by
many savage peoples.

Fire eater.
(a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire.
(b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur.
[Colloq.]

Fire engine, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels,
for throwing water to extinguish fire.

Fire escape, a contrivance for facilitating escape from
burning buildings.

Fire gilding (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam
of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off
afterward by heat.

Fire gilt (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire
gilding.

Fire insurance, the act or system of insuring against fire;
also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes,
in consideration of the payment of a premium or small
percentage -- usually made periodically -- to indemnify an
owner of property from loss by fire during a specified
period.

Fire irons, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs,
poker, and shovel.

Fire main, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out
fire.

Fire master
(Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the
composition of fireworks.

Fire office, an office at which to effect insurance against
fire.

Fire opal, a variety of opal giving firelike reflections.


Fire ordeal, an ancient mode of trial, in which the test
was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon
red-hot irons. --Abbot.

Fire pan, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially
the receptacle for the priming of a gun.

Fire plug, a plug or hydrant for drawing water from the
main pipes in a street, building, etc., for extinguishing
fires.

Fire policy, the writing or instrument expressing the
contract of insurance against loss by fire.

Fire pot.
(a) (Mil.) A small earthen pot filled with combustibles,
formerly used as a missile in war.
(b) The cast iron vessel which holds the fuel or fire in a
furnace.
(c) A crucible.
(d) A solderer's furnace.

Fire raft, a raft laden with combustibles, used for setting
fire to an enemy's ships.

Fire roll, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to
their quarters in case of fire.

Fire setting (Mining), the process of softening or cracking
the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by
exposing it to the action of fire; -- now generally
superseded by the use of explosives. --Raymond.

Fire ship, a vessel filled with combustibles, for setting
fire to an enemy's ships.

Fire shovel, a shovel for taking up coals of fire.

Fire stink, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites,
caused by the formation of hydrogen sulfide. --Raymond.

Fire surface, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are
exposed to the direct heat of the fuel and the products of
combustion; heating surface.

Fire swab, a swab saturated with water, for cooling a gun
in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc.
--Farrow.

Fire teaser, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine.

Fire water, a strong alcoholic beverage; -- so called by
the American Indians.

Fire worship, the worship of fire, which prevails chiefly
in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, called
Chebers, or Guebers, and among the Parsees of India.

Greek fire. See under Greek.

On fire, burning; hence, ardent; passionate; eager;
zealous.

Running fire, the rapid discharge of firearms in succession
by a line of troops.

St. Anthony's fire, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which
St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. --Hoblyn.

St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint Elmo.

To set on fire, to inflame; to kindle.

To take fire, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion.
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Gild
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Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold.
[root]234. See Gold.]
1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a
golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded
chariots." --Pope.
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No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. --Pope.
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2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
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Let oft good humor, mild and gay,
Gild the calm evening of your day. --Trumbull.
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3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to
embellish; as, to gild a lie. --Shak.
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4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.]
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This grand liquior that hath gilded them. --Shak.
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Gildale
(gcide)
Gildale \Gild"ale`\, n. [AS. gilgan to pay + E. ale. See
Yield, v. t., and Ale.]
A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share.
[Obs.]
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Gilded
(gcide)
Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold.
[root]234. See Gold.]
1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a
golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded
chariots." --Pope.
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No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. --Pope.
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2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
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Let oft good humor, mild and gay,
Gild the calm evening of your day. --Trumbull.
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3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to
embellish; as, to gild a lie. --Shak.
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4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.]
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This grand liquior that hath gilded them. --Shak.
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Gilden
(gcide)
Gilden \Gild"en\, a.
Gilded. --Holland.
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Gilder
(gcide)
Gilder \Gild"er\, n.
One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.
[1913 Webster]Gilder \Gil"der\, n.
A Dutch coin. See Guilder.
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Gilding
(gcide)
Gilding \Gild"ing\ (g[i^]ld"[i^]ng), n.
1. The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold
leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that
which resembles gold.
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2. Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any
surface.
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3. Any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what
is solid and genuine.
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Gilding metal, a tough kind of sheet brass from which
cartridge shells are made.
[1913 Webster]Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold.
[root]234. See Gold.]
1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a
golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded
chariots." --Pope.
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No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. --Pope.
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2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
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Let oft good humor, mild and gay,
Gild the calm evening of your day. --Trumbull.
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3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to
embellish; as, to gild a lie. --Shak.
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4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.]
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This grand liquior that hath gilded them. --Shak.
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Gilding metal
(gcide)
Gilding \Gild"ing\ (g[i^]ld"[i^]ng), n.
1. The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold
leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that
which resembles gold.
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2. Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any
surface.
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3. Any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what
is solid and genuine.
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Gilding metal, a tough kind of sheet brass from which
cartridge shells are made.
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Octogild
(gcide)
Octogild \Oc"to*gild\, n. [Octo- + AS. gild payment.]
(Anglo-Saxon Law)
A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the
value of the thing.
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Orfgild
(gcide)
Orfgild \Orf"gild`\, n. [AS. orf, yrfe, cattle, property + gild,
gield, money, fine.] (O. Eng. Law)
Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle.
--Cowell.
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Overgild
(gcide)
Overgild \O`ver*gild"\, v. t. [AS. ofergyldan.]
To gild over; to varnish.
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Regild
(gcide)
Regild \Re*gild"\ (r[=e]*g[i^]ld"), v. t.
To gild anew.
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Ungilded
(gcide)
Ungilded \Ungilded\
See gilded.
Wash gilding
(gcide)
Wash \Wash\, n.
1. The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or
dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes,
washed at once.
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2. A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river,
or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the
shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a
bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire. "The
Wash of Edmonton so gay." --Cowper.
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These Lincoln washes have devoured them. --Shak.
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3. Substances collected and deposited by the action of water;
as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
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The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads,
where rain water hath a long time settled.
--Mortimer.
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4. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from
washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food
for pigs. --Shak.
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5. (Distilling)
(a) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
(b) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings,
used in the West Indies for distillation. --B.
Edwards.
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6. That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared,
tinted, etc., upon the surface. Specifically:
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(a) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
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(b) A liquid dentifrice.
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(c) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
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(d) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external
application; a lotion.
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(e) (Painting) A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
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(j) A thin coat of metal applied in a liquid form on any
object, for beauty or preservation; -- called also
washing.
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7. (Naut.)
(a) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the
water.
(b) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the
action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles,
etc.
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8. The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a
wave; also, the sound of it.
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9. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters. [Prov. Eng.]
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10. [Western U. S.] (Geol.)
(a) Gravel and other rock d['e]bris transported and
deposited by running water; coarse alluvium.
(b) An alluvial cone formed by a stream at the base of a
mountain.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

11. The dry bed of an intermittent stream, sometimes at the
bottom of a canyon; as, the Amargosa wash, Diamond wash;
-- called also dry wash. [Western U. S.]
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12. (Arch.) The upper surface of a member or material when
given a slope to shed water. Hence, a structure or
receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water,
as a carriage wash in a stable.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

13. an action or situation in which the gains and losses are
equal, or closely compensate each other.
[PJC]

14. (Aeronautics) the disturbance of the air left behind in
the wake of a moving airplane or one of its parts.
[PJC]

Wash ball, a ball of soap to be used in washing the hands
or face. --Swift.

Wash barrel (Fisheries), a barrel nearly full of split
mackerel, loosely put in, and afterward filled with salt
water in order to soak the blood from the fish before
salting.

Wash bottle. (Chem.)
(a) A bottle partially filled with some liquid through
which gases are passed for the purpose of purifying
them, especially by removing soluble constituents.
(b) A washing bottle. See under Washing.

Wash gilding. See Water gilding.

Wash leather, split sheepskin dressed with oil, in
imitation of chamois, or shammy, and used for dusting,
cleaning glass or plate, etc.; also, alumed, or buff,
leather for soldiers' belts.
[1913 Webster]Water gilding \Wa"ter gild"ing\
The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by
covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and
then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also {wash
gilding}.
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wash gilding
(gcide)
Wash \Wash\, n.
1. The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or
dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes,
washed at once.
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2. A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river,
or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the
shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a
bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire. "The
Wash of Edmonton so gay." --Cowper.
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These Lincoln washes have devoured them. --Shak.
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3. Substances collected and deposited by the action of water;
as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
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The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads,
where rain water hath a long time settled.
--Mortimer.
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4. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from
washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food
for pigs. --Shak.
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5. (Distilling)
(a) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
(b) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings,
used in the West Indies for distillation. --B.
Edwards.
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6. That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared,
tinted, etc., upon the surface. Specifically:
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(a) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
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(b) A liquid dentifrice.
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(c) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
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(d) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external
application; a lotion.
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(e) (Painting) A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
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(j) A thin coat of metal applied in a liquid form on any
object, for beauty or preservation; -- called also
washing.
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7. (Naut.)
(a) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the
water.
(b) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the
action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles,
etc.
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8. The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a
wave; also, the sound of it.
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9. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters. [Prov. Eng.]
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10. [Western U. S.] (Geol.)
(a) Gravel and other rock d['e]bris transported and
deposited by running water; coarse alluvium.
(b) An alluvial cone formed by a stream at the base of a
mountain.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

11. The dry bed of an intermittent stream, sometimes at the
bottom of a canyon; as, the Amargosa wash, Diamond wash;
-- called also dry wash. [Western U. S.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

12. (Arch.) The upper surface of a member or material when
given a slope to shed water. Hence, a structure or
receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water,
as a carriage wash in a stable.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

13. an action or situation in which the gains and losses are
equal, or closely compensate each other.
[PJC]

14. (Aeronautics) the disturbance of the air left behind in
the wake of a moving airplane or one of its parts.
[PJC]

Wash ball, a ball of soap to be used in washing the hands
or face. --Swift.

Wash barrel (Fisheries), a barrel nearly full of split
mackerel, loosely put in, and afterward filled with salt
water in order to soak the blood from the fish before
salting.

Wash bottle. (Chem.)
(a) A bottle partially filled with some liquid through
which gases are passed for the purpose of purifying
them, especially by removing soluble constituents.
(b) A washing bottle. See under Washing.

Wash gilding. See Water gilding.

Wash leather, split sheepskin dressed with oil, in
imitation of chamois, or shammy, and used for dusting,
cleaning glass or plate, etc.; also, alumed, or buff,
leather for soldiers' belts.
[1913 Webster]Water gilding \Wa"ter gild"ing\
The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by
covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and
then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also {wash
gilding}.
[1913 Webster]
Water gilding
(gcide)
Water gilding \Wa"ter gild"ing\
The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by
covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and
then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also {wash
gilding}.
[1913 Webster]
Weregild
(gcide)
Weregild \Were"gild`\, n. [AS. wergild; wer a man, value set on
a man's life + gild payment of money; akin to G. wehrgeld.
[root]285. See Were a man, and Geld, n.] (O. Eng. Law)
The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man
killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly
to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It
was paid by the murderer. [Written also weregeld,
weregelt, etc.] --Blackstone.
[1913 Webster]
begild
(wn)
begild
v 1: decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold
[syn: gild, begild, engild]
engild
(wn)
engild
v 1: decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold
[syn: gild, begild, engild]
gild the lily
(wn)
gild the lily
v 1: adorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful)
[syn: gild the lily, paint the lily]
2: make unnecessary additions to what is already complete [syn:
gild the lily, paint the lily]
gilded
(wn)
gilded
adj 1: having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long
aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet" [syn:
aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden]
2: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and
perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious
praise"; "a meretricious argument" [syn: gilded,
meretricious, specious]
3: rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded
dining rooms" [syn: deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious,
opulent, princely, sumptuous]
4: made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome
of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons" [syn:
gold, golden, gilded]
gilded flicker
(wn)
gilded flicker
n 1: southwestern United States bird like the yellow-shafted
flicker but lacking the red neck [syn: gilded flicker,
Colaptes chrysoides]
gilder
(wn)
gilder
n 1: someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or
gilt
gildhall
(wn)
gildhall
n 1: the meeting place of a medieval guild
gilding
(wn)
gilding
n 1: a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold
[syn: gilt, gilding]
gilding metal
(wn)
gilding metal
n 1: a brass that is rich in copper; used to make articles that
were to be gilded
WERGILD
(bouvier)
WERGILD, or WEREGILD, old Eng. law. The price which in a barbarous age, a
person guilty of homicide or other enormous offence was required to pay,
instead of receiving other punishment. 4 Bl. Com. 188. See, for the
etymology of this word, and a tariff which was paid for the murder of the
different classes of men, Guizot, Essais sur l'Histoire de France, Essai
4eme, c. 2, Sec. 2.

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