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

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

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..

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

Inauration :: Inauration (n.) The act or process of gilding or covering with gold.

Inaurate :: Inaurate (v. t.) To cover with gold; to gild.

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

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

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..

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

Gilt :: Gilt () imp. & p. p. of Gild.

Tarnish :: Tarnish (v. i.) To lose luster; to become dull; as, gilding will tarnish in a foul air..

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

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

Vermeil :: Vermeil (n.) A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.

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..

Gilder :: Gilder (n.) One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.

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

Gilded :: Gilded (imp. & p. p.) of Gil.

Begilded :: Begilded (imp. & p. p.) of Begil.

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