Word Meanings - CHECKLATON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Ciclatoun. 2. Gilded leather. Spenser.

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• LEATHERWOOD
  A small branching shrub , with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.
• GILD
  Etym: 1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded chariots." Pope. No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. Pope. 2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. Let oft good humor,
• LEATHERBACK
  A large sea turtle , having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.
• LEATHERY
  Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Grew.
• GILDALE
  A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share.
• GILDER
  One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.
• CICLATOUN
  A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages. His robe was of ciclatoun, That coste many a Jane. Chaucer.
• LEATHER
  1. The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively. 2. The skin. Note: Leather is much used adjectively in the sense of made of, relating to, or like, leather. Leather
• LEATHERET; LEATHERETTE
  An imitation of leather, made of paper and cloth.
• LEATHERN
  Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse. "A leathern girdle about his loins." Matt. iii. 4.
• LEATHERHEAD
  The friar bird.
• GILDING
  1. The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold. 2. Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any surface. 3. Any superficial coating or appearance,
• GILDEN
  Gilded. Holland.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• LEATHERNECK
  The sordid friar bird of Australia .
• OVERGILD
  To gild over; to varnish.
• ENGILD
  To gild; to make splendent. Fair Helena, who most engilds the night. Shak.
• ELECTRO-GILDING
  The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• OCTOGILD
  A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the thing.
• OVERLEATHER
  Upper leather. Shak.
• REGILD
  To gild anew.
• WEREGILD
  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. Blackstone. (more info) life + gild payment
• WHITLEATHER
  The paxwax. See Paxwax. (more info) 1. Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather.
• BEGILD
  To gild. B. Jonson.
• 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.