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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.

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

Gold-beaten :: Gold-beaten (a.) Gilded.

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

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.

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

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

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..

Cordwain :: Cordwain (n.) A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like..

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

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 make red with drinking.

Matte :: Matte (n.) A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss..

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

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

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

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

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