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Water Gilding :: Water gilding () 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..

Tip :: Tip (n.) A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf..

Wehrgelt :: Wehrgelt (n.) See Weregild.

Gilt :: Gilt (p. p. & a.) Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow.

Gild :: Gild (v. t.) To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.

Begild :: Begild (v. t.) To gild.

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.

Orfgild :: Orfgild (n.) Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle.

Cushion :: Cushion (n.) a pad on which gilders cut gold lea.

Weregild :: Weregild (n.) 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..

Flatting :: Flatting (n.) A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size..

Checklaton :: Checklaton (n.) Gilded leather.

Deauration :: Deauration (n.) Act of gilding.

Matted :: Matted (a.) Having a dull surface; unburnished; as, matted gold leaf or gilding..

Were :: Were (n.) A fine for slaying a man; the money value set upon a man's life; weregild.

Gelt :: Gelt (n.) Gilding; tinsel.

Gouge :: Gouge (n.) A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve..

Infilm :: Infilm (v. t.) To cover with a film; to coat thinly; as, to infilm one metal with another in the process of gilding; to infilm the glass of a mirror..

Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies..

Gild :: Gild (v. t.) To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie..

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