Word Meanings - GILD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: 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, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day. Trumbull. 3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie. Shak. 4. To make red with drinking. This grand liquior that hath gilded them. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GILD)

• Adorn
• Beautify
• bedeck
• ornament
• decorate
• embellish
• deck
• garnish
• gild
• enrich

Related words: (words related to GILD)

• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• GARNISHMENT
  1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton. Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter. Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• GARNISHEE
  One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money. Note: The order by which warning is made is called a garnishee
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• GARNISHER
  One who, or that which, garnishes.
• ADORN
  Adorned; decorated. Milton.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• BEAUTIFY
  To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke. Syn. -- To adorn; grace; ornament; deck; decorate.
• EMBELLISH
  To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors. Syn. -- To adorn; beautify; deck;
• ADORNMENT
  An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
• ADORNER
  He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.
• GARNISH
  Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish, v. t., 2. Smart. 3. Fetters. 4. A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer. Fielding. Garnish bolt , a bolt
• ENRICHER
  One who enriches.
• ORNAMENTER
  One who ornaments; a decorator.
• ORNAMENTALLY
  By way of ornament.
• EMBELLISHMENT
  1. The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment. In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it. Prescott. 2. That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments. The
• ENRICH
  Etym: 1. To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge. Seeing, Lord, your great mercy Us hath enriched so openly. Chaucer's Dream. 2. To supply
• BEDECK
  To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace. Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands. Pennant.
• ENRICHMENT
  The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.
• DEGARNISHMENT
  The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison.
• DEGARNISH
  1. To strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture, ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish; as, to degarnish a house, etc. 2. To deprive of a garrison, or of troops necessary for defense; as, to degarnish a city or fort. Washington.
• DISEMBELLISH
  To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. Carlyle.
• DISADORN
  To deprive of ornaments. Congreve.
• DEDECORATE
  To bring to shame; to disgrace. Bailey.
• READORN
  To adorn again or anew.