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

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..

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

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

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

Regild :: Regild (v. t.) To gild anew.

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

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

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

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

Deaurate :: Deaurate (a.) Gilded.

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

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

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

Tarnish :: Tarnish (a.) To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the luster of; to sully; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish the purity of color..

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..

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

Gilding :: Gilding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gil.

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

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