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gilt
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gilt
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gilt
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Gilt
(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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Gilt
(gcide) | Gilt \Gilt\, n. [See Geld, v. t.] (Zool.)
A female pig, when young.
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Gilt
(gcide) | Gilt \Gilt\,
imp. & p. p. of Gild.
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Gilt
(gcide) | Gilt \Gilt\, p. p. & a.
Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden
yellow. "Gilt hair" --Chaucer.
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Gilt
(gcide) | Gilt \Gilt\, n.
1. Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of
a thing; gilding. --Shak.
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2. Money. [Obs.] "The gilt of France." --Shak. Gilt-edge |
gilt
(wn) | gilt
adj 1: having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long
aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet" [syn:
aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden]
n 1: a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold
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gilt-edge
(encz) | gilt-edge,zlacená ořízka n: Zdeněk Brož |
gilt-edged
(encz) | gilt-edged,prvotřídní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
gilt-edged security
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aureate gilded gilt gold golden
(gcide) | 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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Begilt
(gcide) | Begild \Be*gild"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Begilded or Begilt.]
To gild. --B. Jonson.
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Electro-gilt
(gcide) | Electro-gilt \E*lec"tro-gilt`\, a.
Gilded by means of voltaic electricity.
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Fire gilt
(gcide) | 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.
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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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Gilt
(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.
[1913 Webster]Gilt \Gilt\, n. [See Geld, v. t.] (Zool.)
A female pig, when young.
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imp. & p. p. of Gild.
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Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden
yellow. "Gilt hair" --Chaucer.
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1. Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of
a thing; gilding. --Shak.
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2. Money. [Obs.] "The gilt of France." --Shak. Gilt-edge |
Gilt-edge
(gcide) | Gilt-edge \Gilt"-edge`\, Gilt-edged \Gilt"-edged`\, a.
1. Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper.
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2. Of the best quality; -- said of negotiable paper, etc.
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Gilt-edged
(gcide) | Gilt-edge \Gilt"-edge`\, Gilt-edged \Gilt"-edged`\, a.
1. Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper.
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2. Of the best quality; -- said of negotiable paper, etc.
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[1913 Webster]decorated \decorated\ adj.
having decorations. [Narrower terms: {beaded, beady,
bejeweled, bejewelled, bespangled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled,
sequined, spangled, spangly}; bedaubed; {bespectacled,
monocled, spectacled}; braided; {brocaded, embossed,
raised}; buttony; carbuncled; {champleve, cloisonne,
enameled}; crested, plumed having a decorative plume);
crested, top-knotted, topknotted, tufted; crested;
embellished, ornamented, ornate; embroidered; {encircled,
ringed, wreathed}; {fancied up, gussied, gussied up, tricked
out}; feathery, feathered, plumy; {frilled, frilly,
ruffled}; fringed; gilt-edged; inflamed; inlaid;
inwrought; laced; mosaic, tessellated; {paneled,
wainscoted}; studded; tapestried; tasseled, tasselled;
tufted; clinquant, tinseled, tinselly; tricked-out]
Also See: clothed, fancy. Antonym: unadorned.
Syn: adorned.
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gilt-edged
(gcide) | Gilt-edge \Gilt"-edge`\, Gilt-edged \Gilt"-edged`\, a.
1. Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper.
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2. Of the best quality; -- said of negotiable paper, etc.
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[1913 Webster]decorated \decorated\ adj.
having decorations. [Narrower terms: {beaded, beady,
bejeweled, bejewelled, bespangled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled,
sequined, spangled, spangly}; bedaubed; {bespectacled,
monocled, spectacled}; braided; {brocaded, embossed,
raised}; buttony; carbuncled; {champleve, cloisonne,
enameled}; crested, plumed having a decorative plume);
crested, top-knotted, topknotted, tufted; crested;
embellished, ornamented, ornate; embroidered; {encircled,
ringed, wreathed}; {fancied up, gussied, gussied up, tricked
out}; feathery, feathered, plumy; {frilled, frilly,
ruffled}; fringed; gilt-edged; inflamed; inlaid;
inwrought; laced; mosaic, tessellated; {paneled,
wainscoted}; studded; tapestried; tasseled, tasselled;
tufted; clinquant, tinseled, tinselly; tricked-out]
Also See: clothed, fancy. Antonym: unadorned.
Syn: adorned.
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Gilthead
(gcide) | Gilthead \Gilt"head`\, n. (Zool.)
A marine fish. The name is applied to two species:
(a) The Pagrus auratus (syn. Chrysophrys auratus), a
valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named
from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll.
(b) The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; --
called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge.
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Giltif
(gcide) | Giltif \Gilt"if\, a. [For gilti, by confusion with -if, -ive, in
French forms. See Guilty.]
Guilty. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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giltpoll
(gcide) | Gilthead \Gilt"head`\, n. (Zool.)
A marine fish. The name is applied to two species:
(a) The Pagrus auratus (syn. Chrysophrys auratus), a
valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named
from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll.
(b) The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; --
called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge.
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Gilttail
(gcide) | Gilttail \Gilt"tail`\, n.
A yellow-tailed worm or larva.
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Unbegilt
(gcide) | Unbegilt \Un`be*gilt"\, a.
Not gilded; hence, not rewarded with gold.
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Ungilt
(gcide) | Ungilt \Ungilt\
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gilt-edged
(wn) | gilt-edged
adj 1: of the highest quality or value; "gilt-edged securities";
"gilt-edged credentials"
2: having gilded edges as the pages of a book |
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