1. [n]  a deep yellow color; "an amber light illuminated the room"; "he admired the gold of her hair"
2. [n]  great wealth; "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice--almighty gold"--Ben Jonson
3. [n]  coins made of gold
4. [n]  a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia
5. [adj]  having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"
6. [adj]  made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons"

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1. \Gold\ (g[=o]ld), Golde \Golde\, Goolde \Goolde\
   (g[=oo]ld), n. (Bot.)
   An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold
   ({Calendula}), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps
   the turnsole.
   

2. \Gold\ (g[=o]ld), n. [AS. gold; akin to D. goud, OS. & G.
   gold, Icel. gull, Sw. & Dan. guld, Goth. gul[thorn], Russ. &
   OSlav. zlato; prob. akin to E. yellow. [root]49, 234. See
   {Yellow}, and cf. {Gild}, v. t.]
   1. (Chem.) A metallic element, constituting the most precious
      metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It
      has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest
      substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and
      very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by
      heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore
      well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au
      (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7.
   Note: Native gold contains usually eight to ten per cent of
         silver, but often much more. As the amount of silver
         increases, the color becomes whiter and the specific
         gravity lower. Gold is very widely disseminated, as in
         the sands of many rivers, but in very small quantity.
         It usually occurs in quartz veins (gold quartz), in
         slate and metamorphic rocks, or in sand and alluvial
         soil, resulting from the disintegration of such rocks.
         It also occurs associated with other metallic
         substances, as in auriferous pyrites, and is combined
         with tellurium in the minerals petzite, calaverite,
         sylvanite, etc. Pure gold is too soft for ordinary use,
         and is hardened by alloying with silver and copper, the
         latter giving a characteristic reddish tinge. [See
         {Carat}.] Gold also finds use in gold foil, in the
         pigment purple of Cassius, and in the chloride, which
         is used as a toning agent in photography.
   2. Money; riches; wealth.
            For me, the gold of France did not seduce. --Shak.
   3. A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower
      tipped with gold.
   4. Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of
      gold. --Shak.
   {Age of gold}. See {Golden age}, under {Golden}.
   {Dutch gold}, {Fool's gold}, {Gold dust}, etc. See under
      {Dutch}, {Dust}, etc.
   {Gold amalgam}, a mineral, found in Columbia and California,
      composed of gold and mercury.
   {Gold beater}, one whose occupation is to beat gold into gold
      leaf.
   {Gold beater's skin}, the prepared outside membrane of the
      large intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves
      of metal during the process of gold-beating.
   {Gold beetle} (Zo["o]l.), any small gold-colored beetle of
      the family {Chrysomelid[ae]}; -- called also {golden
      beetle}.
   {Gold blocking}, printing with gold leaf, as upon a book
      cover, by means of an engraved block. --Knight.
   {Gold cloth}. See {Cloth of gold}, under {Cloth}.
   {Gold Coast}, a part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa.
   {Gold cradle}. (Mining) See {Cradle}, n., 7.
   {Gold diggings}, the places, or region, where gold is found
      by digging in sand and gravel from which it is separated
      by washing.
   {Gold end}, a fragment of broken gold or jewelry.
   {Gold-end man}.
      (a) A buyer of old gold or jewelry.
      (b) A goldsmith's apprentice.
      (c) An itinerant jeweler. ``I know him not: he looks like
          a gold-end man.'' --B. Jonson.
   {Gold fever}, a popular mania for gold hunting.
   {Gold field}, a region in which are deposits of gold.
   {Gold finder}.
      (a) One who finds gold.
      (b) One who empties privies. [Obs. & Low] --Swift.
   {Gold flower}, a composite plant with dry and persistent
      yellow radiating involucral scales, the {Helichrysum
      St[oe]chas} of Southern Europe. There are many South
      African species of the same genus.
   {Gold foil}, thin sheets of gold, as used by dentists and
      others. See {Gold leaf}.
   {Gold} {knobs or knoppes} (Bot.), buttercups.
   {Gold lace}, a kind of lace, made of gold thread.
   {Gold latten}, a thin plate of gold or gilded metal.
   {Gold leaf}, gold beaten into a film of extreme thinness, and
      used for gilding, etc. It is much thinner than gold foil.
   {Gold lode} (Mining), a gold vein.
   {Gold mine}, a place where gold is obtained by mining
      operations, as distinguished from diggings, where it is
      extracted by washing. Cf. {Gold diggings} (above).
   {Gold nugget}, a lump of gold as found in gold mining or
      digging; -- called also a {pepito}.
   {Gold paint}. See {Gold shell}.
   {Gold or Golden}, {pheasant}. (Zo["o]l.) See under
      {Pheasant}.
   {Gold plate}, a general name for vessels, dishes, cups,
      spoons, etc., made of gold.
   {Gold of pleasure}. [Name perhaps translated from Sp.
      oro-de-alegria.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Camelina},
      bearing yellow flowers. {C. sativa} is sometimes
      cultivated for the oil of its seeds.
   {Gold shell}.
      (a) A composition of powdered gold or gold leaf, ground up
          with gum water and spread on shells, for artists' use;
          -- called also {gold paint}.
      (b) (Zo["o]l.) A bivalve shell ({Anomia glabra}) of the
          Atlantic coast; -- called also {jingle shell} and
          {silver shell}. See {Anomia}.
   {Gold size}, a composition used in applying gold leaf.
   {Gold solder}, a kind of solder, often containing twelve
      parts of gold, two of silver, and four of copper.
   {Gold stick}, the colonel of a regiment of English
      lifeguards, who attends his sovereign on state occasions;
      -- so called from the gilt rod presented to him by the
      sovereign when he receives his commission as colonel of
      the regiment. [Eng.]
   {Gold thread}.
      (a) A thread formed by twisting flatted gold over a thread
          of silk, with a wheel and iron bobbins; spun gold.
          --Ure.
      (b) (Bot.) A small evergreen plant ({Coptis trifolia}), so
          called from its fibrous yellow roots. It is common in
          marshy places in the United States.
   {Gold tissue}, a tissue fabric interwoven with gold thread.
   {Gold tooling}, the fixing of gold leaf by a hot tool upon
      book covers, or the ornamental impression so made.
   {Gold washings}, places where gold found in gravel is
      separated from lighter material by washing.
   {Gold worm}, a glowworm. [Obs.]
   {Jeweler's gold}, an alloy containing three parts of gold to
      one of copper.
   {Mosaic gold}. See under {Mosaic}.
   

(1.) Heb. zahab, so called from its yellow colour (Ex. 25:11; 1 Chr. 28:18; 2 Chr. 3:5).

(2.) Heb. segor, from its compactness, or as being enclosed or treasured up; thus precious or "fine gold" (1 Kings 6:20; 7:49).

(3.) Heb. paz, native or pure gold (Job 28:17; Ps. 19:10; 21:3, etc.).

(4.) Heb. betzer, "ore of gold or silver" as dug out of the mine (Job 36:19, where it means simply riches).

(5.) Heb. kethem, i.e., something concealed or separated (Job 28:16,19; Ps. 45:9; Prov. 25:12). Rendered "golden wedge" in Isa. 13:12.

(6.) Heb. haruts, i.e., dug out; poetic for gold (Prov. 8:10; 16:16; Zech. 9:3).

Gold was known from the earliest times (Gen. 2:11). It was principally used for ornaments (Gen. 24:22). It was very abundant (1 Chr. 22:14; Nah. 2:9; Dan. 3:1). Many tons of it were used in connection with the temple (2 Chr. 1:15). It was found in Arabia, Sheba, and Ophir (1 Kings 9:28; 10:1; Job 28:16), but not in Palestine.

In Dan. 2:38, the Babylonian Empire is spoken of as a "head of gold" because of its great riches; and Babylon was called by Isaiah (14:4) the "golden city" (R.V. marg., "exactress," adopting the reading _marhebah_, instead of the usual word _madhebah_).