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

Gilden :: Gilden (a.) Gilded.

Size :: Size (v. i.) Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish..

Unbegilt :: Unbegilt (a.) Not gilded; hence, not rewarded with gold..

Deaden :: Deaden (a.) To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size..

Gilder :: Gilder (n.) A Dutch coin. See Guilder.

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

Octogild :: Octogild (n.) A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the thing..

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

Matting :: Matting (n.) A dull, lusterless surface in certain of the arts, as gilding, metal work, glassmaking, etc..

Gilt :: Gilt (n.) Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding..

Aurated :: Aurated (a.) Resembling or containing gold; gold-colored; gilded.

Aureate :: Aureate (a.) Golden; gilded.

Deaurate :: Deaurate (a.) Gilded.

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

Overgild :: Overgild (v. t.) To gild over; to varnish.

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

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..

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

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..

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