'Gild' definitions:

Definition of 'gild'

From: WordNet
noun
A formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" [syn: club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order]
verb
Decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold [syn: gild, begild, engild]

Definition of 'Gild'

From: GCIDE
  • Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold. [root]234. See Gold.]
  • 1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded chariots." --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. [1913 Webster]
  • Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day. --Trumbull. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • This grand liquior that hath gilded them. --Shak. [1913 Webster]