Meaning of GILT
| Pronunciation: | | gilt
|
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
- [n] a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold
- [adj] having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"
|
| |
| | Websites: | | |
| |
| | Synonyms: | | aureate, chromatic, gilded, gilding, gold, golden |
| |
| | See Also: | | coat, coating | |
| Products Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | Gilt
Gilt more details ... |
| |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
\Gilt\, n. [See {Geld}, v. t.] (Zo["o]l.)
A female pig, when young.
\Gilt\,
imp. & p. p. of {Gild}.
\Gilt\, p. p. & a.
Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden
yellow. ``Gilt hair'' --Chaucer.
\Gilt\, n.
1. Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of
a thing; gilding. --Shak.
2. Money. [Obs.] ``The gilt of France.'' --Shak.
|
| |
| Thesaurus Terms |
| |
| | Related Terms: | | acting, affectation, appearance, attitudinizing, aureate, auric, barrow, beige, bluff, bluffing, blunt, boar, boodle, brass, brassy, bravery, brazen, bread, bronze, bronzy, bucks, buff, buff-yellow, cabbage, canary, canary-yellow, cheating, chiffon, chips, citron, citron-yellow, clinquant, color, coloring, copper, coppery, cream, creamy, cupreous, cuprous, deception, delusion, dinero, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, dough, ecru, facade, face, fakery, faking, fallow, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, ferrous, ferruginous, festoons, finery, flaxen, folderol, foofaraw, four-flushing, fraud, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, front, froufrou, fuss, gaiety, gaudery, gelt, gilded, gilding, gingerbread, gloss, gold, gold-colored, golden, gold-filled, gold-plated, grease, green, green stuff, hog, humbug, humbuggery, imposture, iron, ironlike, jack, kale, lead, leaden, lemon, lemon-yellow, luteolous, lutescent, masquerade, mazuma, mercurial, mercurous, meretriciousness, moolah, mopus, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, oil of palms, ointment, oof, ooftish, or, ostentation, outward show, paste, pewter, pewtery, pig, piggy, piglet, pigling, pinchbeck, playacting, porker, pose, posing, posture, pretense, pretension, pretext, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, quicksilver, razorback, representation, rhino, rocks, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored, sandy, seeming, semblance, sham, shekels, shoat, show, silver, silver-plated, silvery, simoleons, simulacrum, simulation, sow, speciousness, spondulics, steel, steely, straw, straw-colored, suckling pig, sugar, superfluity, swine, the needful, tin, tinny, tinsel, trappings, trickery, trumpery, tusker, varnish, wampum, wild boar, window dressing, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish |
| |
|
|
|