Usually means: Apply thin gold layer to.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gild: Merriam-Webster
  2. gild, gild: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gild, gild: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gild: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gild: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gild, gild: Wordnik
  7. gild: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gild: Wiktionary
  9. gild: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gild: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gild: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gild, gild: Dictionary.com
  13. gild: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. GILD (NASDAQ), Gild: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Gild: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. gild: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. gild: Rhymezone
  18. Gild: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gild: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. GILD: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. gild: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gild: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gild: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gild: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gild: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. gild: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gild: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. GILD: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. gild: Idioms

(Note: See gilded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.
verb:  (transitive) To adorn.
verb:  (transitive, cooking) To decorate with a golden surface appearance.
verb:  (transitive) To give a bright or pleasing aspect to.
verb:  (transitive) To make appear drunk.
noun:  Obsolete spelling of guild. [A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages, established to oversee and protect their specific commercial interests and to provide mutual aid.]

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